Because the most well-armed portion of the populace has convinced themselves that the lifestyle of the rich is within their reach and identifies more with them than with their actual peers.

I know we're having a laugh, but the time when this sort of action is even plausible is quickly running out.

because the rich have convinced one segment of the working class that the other segment of the working class sucks

Gritty agrees.

Because everyone is just hoping to someday becoming rich and joining the upper class.

They would taste horribly. Let's just decapitate them and use as compost. Then they would be of some actual use.

If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflection of the voice; at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They need only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it

We filled up on bread.

Because they're too busy hating each other over whose great grandparents oppressed who or who the other voted for.

Because cannibalism is wrong

Because they can't organize in the right way

Unironically, equating anything left wing with Marxist socialism even though there could be other forms.

left wing ideas tend to be heavily coupled with progressive social issues that most of the population only agrees with to an extent.

I think we're going to see a non socialist populist uprising though with multiple different groups. The elites will no doubt try to claim anyone remotely on the right of it is a raging white supremacist as they're already doing with populist uprisings.

Because you, dear reader, probably can't even pull together the motivation to make a sandwich most of the time, let alone take up arms and put yourself in harm's way.

Maybe they're saving it for sweeps.

La Boetie wrote the "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" in 1577. It's almost 500 years old now. There is no hope.

"You first. (then I'll see if it snowballs)."

Alright look, I hate the 1% too but can we start using new terms besides "eat the rich" and "haha guillotine go BRRRRRR"?

It gets kinda old when everyone says it.

Hollup, let him cook

We tried that, but money seems to prefer the company of other money, and is better at organizing than people.

Mmmm rich people

I wouldn't want to eat beef from a cow treated with steroids or one with mad cow disease or an old cow minutes from death, so why would I want to eat Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, or Warren Buffett?

It always bothers me on labor day when I see stores open. I work at a desk 4 out of 5 days a week that is the extent of my "labor" and yet I get a day off.