&gt; The article notes a cycle, which is closer to my understanding of history<p>That&#x27;s because either your understanding of history, your written comprehension, or both are quite bad actually.<p>The article notes a cycle that is always corrected with some kind of revolution, armed or not.<p>The article also notes that in open societies sons never end up living worts than their parents (in general, not with your naive example of a particular case where a son ends up living a worst life than his parents because of some hurricane) because either society functions properly and that is not a issue, or if it doesn&#x27;t revolution takes place.