> In history books, you get a sense sometimes that there were eras in which stuff like this sent people into the streets in rages. Read better history books. A

> In history books, you get a sense sometimes that there were eras in which stuff like this sent people into the streets in rages. Read better history books. A bunch of people yelling into the air is not how change is effected. Really the culprit here is the French revolution, back when things were physically rooted so if you could storm the palace and burn your debt the debt would really be gone. All the French organs of power were located in this city filled with seething people. But that is not the world we live in today. If you storm the whitehouse, you just trespassed on a famous building, you haven't captured the center of power. If you tear down a statue, you just lose popular support, you are not overthrowing anything by attacking the physical statue. Power is not in buildings and it's not obtained by yelling. Moreover the resentment of incredibly privileged people complaining that they are not as privileged as someone else is not how you gain popular support. Yes, envy is still a powerful motivator, but the achillees heel of envy is that it's hard to unify a group of people who are driven by resentment. They constantly turn on each other. It's a very tricky thing, and if you are a would-be Napoleon, then shouting at birds isn't how you convert envy into a stepping stone for power.