[Pukin Dog]

Poverty leads to instability.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

If that were true, revolution would be as common as poverty itself. Removing the rights and responsibilities of the Individual are what leads to revolution. If you remove the right of self-determination from a people, you will get revolution almost automatically, without further oppresion of the people.

[FITZ]

Revolutions and coups are actually quite common in third world countries. For the same reasons you mentioned, when you have no middle class, a person willing to work hard has no access to capital, no self-determination. They really have nothing left to lose. They may put up with it for a while ----but then a leader rises up and usually the leader is no better than what they had.