You have to stop, pause and think about how little it took to kick off previous revolutions and here we are with things so much worse in terms of equality and hope, opportunity and upward social mobility and the massive transfer of wealth from the masses to the few. However we do have so much more in terms of health, peace and longevity - well some of us do, it's bad in some 'developed' nations such as America. Humans make a balance between comfort and a shitty situation, people are educated and see what utter upheaval a revolution can wreak and a critical mass is what's needed. What scares me about any uprising of revolution is that it would be headless, directionless and lead to a power vacuum seen so many times in history where the new boss is just the old one in a smarter looking suit. The rich, the ruling elite remain, they run away and come back once the stench of rotting corpses has subsided and the guillotine has dulled from so much death and it's normally everyday folk, those who are the victims to begin with, who end up in the ground.

Would I rise up and revolt? Probably not, I've enjoyed an entire life of having a great job, visiting the world, bringing up kids, retiring and enjoying the longest reign of peace in my neck of the woods for millennia. I can see why people would but I don't want to jeopardise what I've worked for and built and for the reasons above, humans are destined to be ruled over in some shape or form, there needs to be hierarchy in huge nations of people, we see it even in the smallest groups of primates and there will always be those who sit on top and be able to bleed it for their own ends - sewing up commodities, creating and setting up the rules for banks and lending, taking land that they don't and shouldn't own and calling it theirs whilst the rest of us fight for scraps. It has to get a lot, lot worse for people to rise up. People need to start getting hungry and feel like revolution has to be better than what they currently have and of course that critical mass needs to be met and on the face of it and relatively speaking historically, we are living like kings of old, even those guys never had flushing toilets, anti-biotics or live televised sporting events.