> Somewhere around two-thirds of Saudi nationals work for the government. Many of these people do virtually nothing, they are employed simply for social purpose

> Somewhere around two-thirds of Saudi nationals work for the government. Many of these people do virtually nothing, they are employed simply for social purposes, to keep the population happy. Thus, their incomes are very similar to universal basic incomes. The Saudi government gets 90 percent of its income from oil revenue, which given the ease of producing oil in Saudi Arabia and the use of foreign partners to do much of the producing makes this revenue source pretty similar to simply printing money. In Saudi Arabia money doesn’t grow on trees, but it does bubble out of the ground. Saudi has been running a real large scale UBI experiment for decades, showing how you end up a stagnant, backwards and authoritarian society. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2016/10/03/saudi-government-budget-cuts-prove-basic-income-is-no-solution-to-slow-economic-growth/#3d440ead4bbe https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2016/10/03/saudi...