I can't upvote this enough. People do indeed believe in revolutions, and thinks by burning stuff that wealth will be made.

3 years later (Tunisian here), we found out that it's not a revolution. The dictator might have been ousted by external agencies. While the protests are legit, the outcome is not.

This made me a new opinion: You can have power over another entity by using damage (burning, and crashing stuff). But this won't create power, let alone structure or wealth.

A good example is Libya, where the situation is moving fast into Somalia despite having large oil reserves.