Charlie StrossMar 16

RE: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116232524241982831

Additional note: when foodprices rocket, that is ALMOST ALWAYS the trigger for civil unrest and revolutions. (The other is a fiscal/tax/revenue crisis, caused by government turning into rent-seeking by the rich *and* trying to fund a war simultaneously, as with the French Revolution.)

Does this look familiar to you, too?

Show threadMary Mazzocco
@cstross “Lack of a middle class with a vested interest in keeping change modest” also one of the pre-revolution boxes we seem to be ticking off.
Mar 16 at 6:55pmWeb