Originally Posted by Yakk

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Thirdly, bloody revolution. If the government won't feed the masses, it quite often finds that the masses proceed to destroy the government. It has happened. Admittedly, America hasn't seen much in the way of revolution -- the underclasses in America have never revolted against an entrenched nobility -- but it does happen when inequity gets bad enough. The closest the USA has had, in my recollection, is labour strikes and government/corp crackdowns on labour movements.