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Keep the species alive.
70m rich people to run humanity.. they won't be rich anymore, it's all relative. Probably the first problem is going to be to organize self sufficient communities, search and rescue the isolated pockets of survivors.
Many rich people tend to live near each other, but not too near, so some communities will be able to get started quickly.
Basics of life, food, shelter, security, health. Probably a fair few doctors in the survivor group, so health is covered.
Probably many can fly airplanes. A few might even be able the maintain their planes.
Adventuring is an extremely rich person's hobby, so there will be basic survival skills in the group.
Food, like in many zombie scenarios, will last a few years before it becomes critical.
In this scenario, we're probably looking at a lot of learn skills in this group, because of their previous amount of leisure time, some of them have accrued lots of knowledge. That they can now apply. For those who have no basic skills, they will be forced to learn. Maybe not all 70 million will thrive, but enough. Society will continue. Humans will continue.
As far as the survivors are concerned, they're no longer rich, they're in a labor poor environment, and they have to provide for themselves. So society will effectively reset.