This is what many people think, but it is demonstrably false. Most terrorists are highly educated and some are rich. The terrorists involved in 9&#x2F;11 all had university degrees, for example, and some of them from western universities. These are not people who would be committing suicide anyway out of depression caused by miserable circumstances.<p>Frankly, I suspect that at least part of this comes from the aversion of highly educated and rich people to the idea that somebody much like them in those respects could do such a thing, and that it must be a poor lowly educated person doing it.