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It's the opposite.

Most revolutions (bolsheviks, cuba, iran, arab spring etc) have made people significantly poorer, while most innovations have made people significantly richer (railroads, electricity, first and second agricultural revolutions, manufacturing)

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I would be interested in some quantitative answer to this - although I imagine it would be hard to define. You skipped lots of revolutions (American, French) and of course there are non economic “costs” (the Terror of France, etc) as well as the problem of short-vs-long term effects.

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