Let them eat cake! Is history repeating itself?
“Sire! The peasants are revolting!”
“Yes, they stick on iceI”
The urban elites won’t be eating much cake when the peasants stop paying carbon taxes to grow it and transport it.
Maybe so. Consider these quotes from "The Russian Revolution" by Alan Moorehead 1958
"… this was a predatory state which the Czar and a small group of noblemen and bureaucrats ruled for their own exclusive benefit...The ruling group owned all the wealth, enjoyed all the privileges and monopolized all the political power, and it did not intend to give up any of its prerogatives. It considered the peasants to be little better than animals..."