&gt; If it&#x27;s income inequality, then why are most terrorists highly educated and relatively well off?<p>As I understand it, Middle Eastern terrorists are disproportionately from the thin and relatively insecure middle class, neither the oligarchs nor the people at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.<p>I don&#x27;t think this is at all inconsistent with income inequality being a major contributing factor, though its not as simple as personal poverty being a driving factor.