Tunisia Was Destined To Move To Democracy Because It’s Rich And Educated

An interesting economic perspective on why Tunisians rose up and why the rest of the Arabs won’t.

Basically, there’s a point at which a people becomes too rich and educated to live under a dictatorship. That, it seems, only applies to Tunisia. And just in case you’re wondering about the rich arabs of the gulf, those are supposedly too rich to stage an uprising. Check the details here.