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by watwut 246 days ago
Historically, it did not. What actually does lead to revolution is regime becoming weak and unable to organize. You can keep people in horrible conditions and there will be no revolution, because dissenters will get stopped long before they anywhere near organizing themselves.

It is when the powerful become the weak that revolution can happen. And it takes more then one round of it till reasonable government emerges again.