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In Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, the wealthy class pays out a fair bit of money to citizens (IDK the exact parameters of who counts as someone who rec
by newaccountman2 2y ago
In Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, the wealthy class pays out a fair bit of money to citizens (IDK the exact parameters of who counts as someone who receives this money, but you get the idea--at the very least, the Arabs whose ancestors had been living in the country when oil was found are receiving something).
- dragonwriter 2y ago> In Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, the wealthy class pays out a fair bit of money to citizens In the gulf states, the usual pattern is that the citizens are rewarded with a share of the wealth extracted by exploitation of vast hordes of noncitizen laborers, so that they are invested in the exploitation, from which, on a per capita basis at least, the wealthy class receives much more.