You could extend this concept to a lot of things, including software projects: a large/debt-induced codebase requires more and more developers in order to keep

You could extend this concept to a lot of things, including software projects: a large/debt-induced codebase requires more and more developers in order to keep improving it, but the more devs you have the lower returns you get on each one, until at some point you're hiring people to prop up the tech debt from the last batch of people you hired, ad infinitum. Fortunately a "revolution" in this context just means a rewrite.