Zero Hedge/DataTrek Research: The 3 Things Behind Mass Social Unrest In Bolivia, Hong Kong, France, Spain, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, And Elsewhere
Social unrest seems to be cropping up all over the world, from Hong Kong to Bolivia and Lebanon; we offer up a 3 variable model to help explain why. The inputs: urbanization, income inequality, and average age. Every country currently seeing mass protests has some combination of high levels of the first two and lower readings for the last. This admitted crude measure also explains why many developed countries’ political environments also seem so fraught at the moment.
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WNU Editor: Apparently there are three variables .... urbanization, income inequality, and average age. In short. High urbanization and income inequality coupled with a low average age are the ingredients that is resulting in a great deal of social unrest in the world today.
