However, if violent revolution occurs, it is more often the case that poverty is redistributed upwards rather than wealth being redistributed downwards. Rather than the poor becoming wealthy, the wealthy become newly poor alongside the existing poor. The wealthy are overthrown, but along with them the whole system risks being plunged into chaos, and the fragile set of economic incentives risks being destroyed. For the most part, the only people who become wealthier from this process are the handful of leaders of the new regime.
The great danger of civil war
