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> So Saudi Arabia, UAE, Canada and Saudi Arabia are 'stuck' selling natural resources? Canada maybe not so much, but Saudi Arabia and the UAE? Yeah, and I thin
by luckylion 6y ago
> So Saudi Arabia, UAE, Canada and Saudi Arabia are 'stuck' selling natural resources?
Canada maybe not so much, but Saudi Arabia and the UAE? Yeah, and I think they understand that as well. If we have a fusion breakthrough next year, what will Saudi Arabia export besides Wahhabism?
- m12k 6y agoThe Saudi royal family is busy buying as much of Silicon Valley as they can, to ensure they can still live atop a mountain of cash once the oil runs out. As for the rest of the country - yeah, they are royally fucked (pun intended) since no other industry than oil was ever developed.
- arethuza 6y agoThey seem to be trying to develop their tourist industry - I keep getting adverts for holidays there!
- andrepd 6y agoIt's possibly one of countries in the world I'm least interested in visiting.
- nasmorn 6y agoWhere else to go to a good oldfashioned lashing?
- arethuza 6y agoSaudi Arabia apparently has stopped using flogging: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/25/saudi-arabia-to-end-flogging-as-a-form-of-punishment https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/25/saudi-arabia-t... However, plenty places still use corporal punishment, including Singapore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_corporal_punishment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_corporal_punishment
- I-M-S 6y agoPublic beheading then (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deera_Square https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deera_Square)
- TeMPOraL 6y agoOr more likely, what happens when the oil wells eventually run dry? Or even, what happens in the years before, when those wells start producing less and less oil?