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b_b  ·  3449 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up?

I wonder if we're just guilty of the line of thinking that leads us to believe that our time is more important than other historic times. If we look at true, lasting rebellions, they took many years for things to get so bad that people were compelled to act. Slavery in the US (and pre-US Americas) lasted hundreds of years before the Civil War. The French Revolution was a millennium in the making. Here, we're talking about a few decades of stagnation where actually a lot of people are doing really well, and even if you're poor there's a good chance you have a smart phone. I think the poor should demand better policies, but I just don't think things are bad enough for long enough to provoke a popular uprising.