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Elites enjoy parties that are expensive and transgressive, and also let them escape their personas. The masked ball is an old tradition of the upper classes. You may remember the famous one in Romeo & Juliet.

The masses only begin to see darker forces and sinister motives in elite decadence when things are going badly for them.
For example, most of the stories about Marie Antoinette's haughty disdain for the poor were rumors created out of justifiable jealousy. By all reliable accounts she was a nice girl who was simply sheltered and had no idea what was going on outside the palace.

Normally the masses just fantasize about joining the club. Cinderella is that kind of story.