Things usually stay the same and people go about their lives until life gets so hard that they can no longer cope and need to do something about it. These hardships can come from more rules, regulations, and restrictions from the ruling class; or they can come from the economic reality and total disastrous results caused by central planning.

Due to the freedom and ease of access to information that modern technologies introduced, the ruling class can feel that they are losing control over the populous. They are no longer able to control how people think and act through the control of information. The ironic thing is that the harder the ruling class try to grasp onto that control, the more draconian their regulations, the more people realize they are being control and will rebel against it. Furthermore, the more the ruling class try to central plan, the more the economy will fail, the more industries/production will collapse, and the more scarce resources will become. After all, humans want to be free and plentiful, and will likely to do something about it if they are not. When enough people / enough percentage of the population want to do something about them being not free and not plentiful, then that is when the time will be different.