The conduct of human affairs always has a cost that must be paid one way or another. This cost may be paid in a more or less equitable way. When individuals and groups pay far more than is their share, which is the case still in many parts of the world, it does not necessarily mean that revolution will occur. Many factors enter into the making of a revolution, perhaps the most important being the capacity of a regime to govern. It may govern in repressive and unjust way, but if it is sufficiently astute and attentive to the interests of a few powerful groups it may well survive. And, of course, it may govern badly but not face determined and visionary opposition or powerful ideologies, thus dodging the revolutionary bullet in another way.