Only if living conditions today are so bad you might as well be dead. Which is why I speculate revolutions might become rare, as progress has improved everyone

Only if living conditions today are so bad you might as well be dead. Which is why I speculate revolutions might become rare, as progress has improved everyone's lot, even the lowest classes. Few people live in a wood-fired dirt-floor log cabin or wash their clothes in a tub by the river these days.