And don&#x27;t even think about saying the even more accurate, &quot;revolutions often happen when there is strong income inequality and limited upward mobility, the rich can afford luxury, the poor can&#x27;t afford to eat, and the middle&#x2F;working class -- who <i>can</i> afford to eat, and even have some leisure to think about insecurity, and to think about who to <i>blame</i> for their insecurity -- see the conditions of the poor and the luxury of rich and their own risk of joining the poor, and blame the rich for it&quot;...<p>Its rarely the <i>poor</i> who lead who revolutions, its usually the middle&#x2F;working class (and often those members of the existing elites that, either from genuine sympathy or opportunism, decide to take up their cause against the rest of the elites.)