This is so true. The way I see it, there are two ways to shift the status quo. The less likely one is to build labour power by mass unionizing, thus remove many of those factors that make civil action so costly. The more likely one is for shit to get worse for enough people with nothing to lose that the price of civil action drops to zero for some 20-25% of the population. The world has seen that play out before - during The Great Depression.