From the very beginning, many of the protesters at Occupy Wall Street have made clear that the events in Egypt’s Tahrir Square and “the Arab Spring” provided inspiration for the Occupy movement. As a result, one thing I’ve been curious about is how closely the economic and social conditions in the United States that led to the Occupy movement correspond to those that sparked the protests that came to be dubbed the Arab Spring.
So I was very interested to discover over at Rortybomb that Mike Konczal has a post up comparing the Arab Spring countries to the United States with regard to at least one metric.
