(September 21, 2015 at 2:33 am)Violet Wrote:The most effective revolution is when people simply stop caring and supporting the government, like what happened in the USSR. One day people simply said "fuck it" and it was all over.(September 19, 2015 at 10:25 pm)Chad32 Wrote: We may not be too far from that. The rich can't keep leeching a country dry of money forever. Eventually there will be an uprising.
Such an uprising is not in the rich's best interest. They'll give people little things here and there if it's getting hairy, and that'll usually obliterate that kind of movement pretty quickly.
Such an uprising is not in the poor's best interest... not until death and a country filled with a civil war's trauma is preferable to living in these conditions....
But the funny thing is... when the poor are living in bad conditions, quite apart from the hilarious irony that it's actually bad economics for the rich: it's awfully hard to fight on an empty stomach after years of malnutrition. Depression sets in pretty hard, very difficult to motivate the poorest when you don't have anything for them to begin with.
Most people around the world simply don't care what kind of government they live under as long as they have some measure of peace and stability. The government can oppress certain segments without any blow-back but it always has to be careful not to cross the line. And most of the time it's hard to know where that line is.
