If the population starts demanding more they will make it harder for you to make demands.

You might see things like social media sites that were open and free being purchased by billionaires and transformed into unrecognizable sewers.

You might see things like protests violently suppressed by massive police presences that fire on crowds that are both unarmed and non-violent.

You might see things like insane brazenly partisan gerrymandering and voter purges.

You might see things like people being arrested and disappeared for the reviews that run contrary to the regime.

If you see any of these things, you might be in trouble because it doesn’t matter how many of you demand UBI or food or shelter, bullets are cheaper and they’ve already shown that they’re willing to use them.

Wow that is a very short article. What a fucking nightmare.