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Sure, they could put money in education, research climate change and photovoltaic or other technologies and try to improve quality of life with sustainable stuf
by tweakimp 2y ago
Sure, they could put money in education, research climate change and photovoltaic or other technologies and try to improve quality of life with sustainable stuff.
But to the people in power, only symbols and power are important.
- mrtksn 2y agoI think they do all that. They have plenty of universities, also their other oil rich neighbours are pouring money into British and American educational institutions to open campuses there. IIRC some Ivy league universities from the Western world have campuses in the region.
- throw_pm23 2y agoThat's true but neither the students nor the instructors at those institutes are local.
- selimthegrim 2y agoI can think of one exception, a pretty famous Emirati physicist who has made a big name for himself
- zaphirplane 2y ago> But to the people in power, only symbols and power are important. A general statement that is universal across time and geography. Nothing special about the gulf