its more that people are out of work. its harder to riot if you have to work in the morning. right now 40 million dont
I suspect Covid19 economic stress made this explode about 3x worse than it otherwise would have
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admittedly thats due to covid, but an important distinction i think
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Yup, my thoughts exactly
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The Arab Spring was exacerbated by massive unemployment. These are truly powder keg conditions.
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pent up frustration anarchy goes well with pandemic in any story
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Agree. Bursting at the seams
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Loss of faith in government (or an acceleration of ongoing loss of faith) is like 90% of the Covid story. This is in a sense just an extension of that.
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Or could it be cumulative stress of many years? Something akin to plate tectonics?
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Stating the obvious
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Not sure if this is a helpful comment though
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