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 By 2017, the planet was on the verge of a population explosion of young people. ​ People under the age of 30 already accounted for about half the population of what was euphemistically known as the ‘developing world,’ and in Egypt, for example, they made up half the labor force. However, as the world economy continued to stagnate, there were fewer and fewer jobs, even for those young people who had some how managed to get an education. Even in advanced countries like Spain, youth unemployment had already risen to a staggering 50%, and in retrospect the Arab Spring of 2011, along with the occupations of public squares from Madrid to Wall Street, appeared as the opening stages of what was to become a planetary rebellion of billions of young people against an inherited economic and social system with no place for them.  By 2017, the planet was on the verge of a population explosion of young people. ​ People under the age of 30 already accounted for about half the population of what was euphemistically known as the ‘developing world,’ and in Egypt, for example, they made up half the labor force. However, as the world economy continued to stagnate, there were fewer and fewer jobs, even for those young people who had some how managed to get an education. Even in advanced countries like Spain, youth unemployment had already risen to a staggering 50%, and in retrospect the Arab Spring of 2011, along with the occupations of public squares from Madrid to Wall Street, appeared as the opening stages of what was to become a planetary rebellion of billions of young people against an inherited economic and social system with no place for them. 
  
-Some of the participants saw it coming at the time. As the Egyptian blogger ‘sandmonkey’ wrote in 2011: +Some of the participants saw it coming at the time. As the Egyptian blogger ‘sandmonkey’((http://​www.sandmonkey.org/​)) ​wrote in 2011: 
  
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