[The Great Satan]

Suicide bombing has another compelling economic logic, notes Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Hoover Institution senior fellow and NYU professor. The bombers have a financial incentive to martyr themselves. They are young men with no economic prospects, no education, no vocation, no opportunity. Suicide bombers guarantee their families payoffs from the Palestinian Authority and from Saddam Hussein. "There is a rational expectation on the part of suicide bombers that they are providing for the future welfare for their families," says Bueno de Mesquita. (It also doesn't hurt that they think they are going to paradise.)

Source: The Logic of Assassination

[Catspaw]

So what you're saying is that they're losers and "suicide bomber" is a career choice?

[anapikoros]

They are young men with no economic prospects, no education, no vocation, no opportunity ..... for sex with women. Hence the appeal of the promised 72 virgins.