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it looks very much like a bunch of aristocrats used a mob to take over.

Not unusual for educated professionals to form the intellectual and financial backbone of a revolution, because... they are the ones with money and education.

But there was an enormous gulf between the mid level bureaucrats of the French Revolution and the senior aristocrats they deposed. That is, in large part, because the French aristocracy was married into all the other European royal families, while the insurrectionists were not.

If some junior office workers at Exxon executed the board and the C-level staff with the help of the blue collar roughnecks, that would be an enormous change in the governance of the company. Imagine how Wall Street would respond. Not unlike how France's neighbors responded to their revolution, I'm sure.

it looks very much like a bunch of aristocrats used a mob to take over.

Mostly bourgeois actually, aristocrats were very much profiting of the system. Bourgeois are the ones who had enough money to get education and rethink the political system to end the aristocrats' birth privileges. How would an illiterate peasant be able to rethink the political system beyond tax reduction?