We've all [Americans] still got too much to lose to participate in riots to any large degree. Compared to most countries, we're rich, fat and lazy which is to say, too comfortable to risk it. If unemployment keeps heading the way it is and people continue to lose their homes, we may be heading towards a leaner, less comfortable future in which a flash point could coalesce demonstration much more easily that today. This scenario is more and more on my mind of late.