I’m not even sure I know what the author means by ex-pats. I presume it means expatriates, but is it foreigners who left or Saudis? Where would 800,000 people working low paying jobs go?
Yep , the real reason they let women drive... could not have drivers anymore
I guess this is is what happens when you enslave workers and rape foreign women?
Maybe the Saudis can take in all those refugees who fled to Europe.
Is the entire Bush family still in Saudi working at the Royal massage parlor?
One of his first goals was to raise $100 billion by selling 10% of Saudi Aramco to stock investors. That idea is completely cockeyed on several levels.
Anyway, the sale was postponed once to 2018, and is likely to be postponed again to 2019, because no one can figure out how to value it.
His idea to Saudi-ize the workforce and industrialize the economy is more pipe dreaming.
Unlike the Chinese industrial miracle, Saudi Arabia does not have 200 million impoverished peasant farmers who are willing to do mind numbing factory work in order to slightly improve their meager standard of living.
At his current pace of “reform,” especially after extorting $100 billion from dozens of Saudi Princes and oligarchs, the Prince will be lucky to avoid a coup d’état, and even more lucky to survive it.
Ha! Saudis dont work! All the white collar / clerical jobs are filled by Indians and Pakistanis. A lot of the technician positions are Filipinos. The Sri Lankans and the Bangladeshis do most of the menial dirty jobs. We had two Saudis in our office when I worked there. They would be in the office about four hours a day. Whether or not they ever did any work is unclear.
Syrian refugees? Nah, that would be too easy.
There’s plenty of Palestinians available.
Saudi Arabia is an American ally and always has been
This is a job for Mexico!
can we trade them immigrants for oil?
Too bad Mexico’s not on their southern border.
My daughter was assigned to tutor some Saudi exchange students while she was in college.
According to her those people are utterly worthless. Pampered, spoiled, lazy, sex-obsessed, drunken, drugging, partying, unserious, emotionally arrested at age 13.
Without foreign workers they will all starve. Their population has no clue how to live in the real world.
They just have a more extreme case of what we’ve created by bringing in illegals to do our “lesser” work.
Saudi Arabia has high unemployment among its young people. Have them do the work.
Much of this shift is simple foreign drivers going home, and women will drive themselves.
That alone will help improve their economy.