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Originally Posted by Kiopa_Matt
The people in control aren't stupid, and they know what they're doing. There's going to be no large sudden changes until they're 100% confident the general populous is weak enough to the point they can't revolt, hence the continuous and gradual squeezing of the middle class.
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sounds accurate enough, altho that "control" probably isn't as complete and well thought out as one might think, and chaotic events and sudden crisis could still make all the people in control look like fools.
take the arab spring of rage for instance - that the underemployed young adults of the arab nations would eventually revolt was predictable, but that it would happen this year still surprised the sovereigns.