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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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How can social inequality and privilege be truly tackled if the ones on the top of the hierarchy gains so much (security, economic, social, psychological etc.) by perpetuating it?

I'm not sure which subreddit to ask this question but theres a lot of smart people here so might as well have a go. How can the elite and the ones in power ever be persuaded to share their status or utilize resources to better the whole community if there is so much to lose and very little to gain for them? Seems like a catch 22 that those with the most ability to change the system has the least to gain from changing it....
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Tycho was rather brief but he mentioned the most obvious reply to this. This question is kind of both valid for sociology and philosophy.

Using a Marxist framework, a class based revolution is never simply one where the "cycle starts again." The new mode of production brings about a change in the socio-economic system with a new set political, social, cultural, moral etc. relations. If your question was applied to today and answered using this framework, the solution would be to topple capitalism and replace with democratic worker control of businesses leading to an end to economic plutocracy and consequently political oligarchy. Your comment is kind of right - you can't really persuade your oppressive rulers to set you free, but you can sure revolt against them.