I haven't heard the podcast for context but if he thinks "people aren't willing to deal with the discomforts inconveniences and pain" of revolution, he's only talking about a small handful of the people in this world. The white people in the imperial core.
Now not too long ago that handful of people had a disproportionately huge bearing on humanity's prospects, so you couldn't really fault anyone for ignoring everyone else in their evaluation. But that disproportionality is eroding, and it's being accelerated as the world rejects the US.
So his statement about that specific set of 'people' may be true, but it increasingly doesn't matter.