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Re:Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of... by ben_w on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:19PM (#27426077)
> 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_Communist_Manifesto

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Re:Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of... by specialist on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:49PM (#27426493)
TLDR: We tolerate the super rich because Adam Smith.

Illuminating. Thanks.

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