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Can anyone ELI5?

• deleted 6y ago
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• WJW 6y ago
  TLDR: after the revolution will have come and gone, you still won't be in charge. Regime changes, whether forced by outside circumstances or from within a single society, just change one group of elites with another while the middle and lower classes stay mostly the same. Pareto (the originator of this theorem) thinks this is a basic conclusion from the fact that most people won't have the right combination of wealth, connections, intelligence, ambition and luck to take advantage of societal upheaval when opportunities present itself.
• marcus_holmes 6y ago
  China had an emperor surrounded by an impenetrable bureacracy of "elites". Then they had a communist revolution, overthrew the government, executed all the elites. Now they have a chairman, surrounded by an impenetrable bureacracy of "elites".
  • Chris2048 6y ago
    I'm not the biggest fan of CPP, but I have to admit they seems to have improved the life's of most Chinese.
    • marcus_holmes 6y ago
      Same for the Russians, I think
    • unsigner 6y ago
      In the past 40-ish years, yes; in the previous 40 years, they inflicted a lot of suffering on the country.