Historically, those who divide the cake will eventually find that the cake has become so small that they can't even share it themselves. When a system long-term "refuses to/makes no effort to grow the cake" and relies solely on increasingly forceful "dividing of the existing cake" to maintain control and legitimacy, it will inevitably face a critical point: either the底层 completely lose patience, or the middle/elite classes also start to centrifugalize, or external pressure shatters the entire pot.