Diversification. I don’t mean to generalize, but there’s a aspect to Saudi culture where they look at down upon people who work - regardless of whether you’re

Diversification. I don’t mean to generalize, but there’s a aspect to Saudi culture where they look at down upon people who work - regardless of whether you’re a doctor or a rocket scientist - they look down upon folks who work for a living as if they’re lesser people. In that micro culture, you cannot rely on your own population for economic output. You rely on foreigners or you directly invest in foreign companies and hope to find the next Amazon, Microsoft, or something like that. Source - I married right after high school and my first husband (15 years older) worked in Saudi Arabia. I went there to live with him. We lived together there for 3 years. I eventually left him because I didn’t want to be in a cage (at least that’s what it was like to live there as a female) and wanted to go to school and have my own career and freedom.