A week or two before this, Saudi Arabia admitted it would run out of cash in five years.
And they already get religious permission to eat their wives.
Note that there isn’t an intermediary cost savings set of solutions like let women drive so you can get rid of the million hired drivers (and save money) or encourage women to clean their own houses instead of a million plus hired maids (and save money).
Instead, their first thing is let your wife enjoyed the hired help until you can’t put food on the table, then eat her.