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> Hungry starving sick people make the least effective revolutionaries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_

> Hungry starving sick people make the least effective revolutionaries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_riots https://www.history.com/news/bread-french-revolution-marie-antoinette https://www.history.com/news/bread-french-revolution-marie-a... https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/food-riots-and-revolution-grain-prices-predict-political-instability.html https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/food-riots-and-revoluti... History. Read it. > but there is a reason we let them exist Please, do tell.

ben_w 5y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_riots One revolution in that list (France). One government resigning (Japan). One major change of policy (Egypt). Most of the rest end in some variant of “and then lots of rioters died when the authorities put them down”. > Please, do tell. Because we tried these two ideas, and while both had good points, one of them turned out to be less wrong than the other: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto
- specialist 5y ago
  TLDR: We tolerate the super rich because Adam Smith. Illuminating. Thanks.