If the poor get their basic needs and entertainment (bread and circuses, as the Romans said) then that's generally sufficient to prevent revolutions. And wester

If the poor get their basic needs and entertainment (bread and circuses, as the Romans said) then that's generally sufficient to prevent revolutions. And western societies in general are so wealthy that people can stay (or become) relatively very poor while still getting enough so that they won't really risk their lives in a revolt. They'll complain and protest, sure, but it takes a literal threat to their lives because of hunger or violence to spark a proper revolt. The bottom decile of americans are nowhere near as poor as the poverty that sparked, for example, the Arab Spring revolutions, and very likely (and hopefully) never will be.