> 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 citiz

> 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.