What is the developmental future of Saudi Arabia and other middle east OPEC states...

What is the developmental future of Saudi Arabia and other middle east OPEC states? They already know relying on oil is completely unsustainable but the have virtually no other natural resources, no global industry, are too far behind countries like US/China/Korea in tech to become relevant enough there. Tax haven states maybe?

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they will invest their money into a bunch of high tech bullshit like taiwan and live off like decadent westerners pretending wahhabi thing never happened

Taiwan is one of the world's largest semiconductor producers though, something that won't happen with those countries, and despite the political narrative it's also immensely dependent on China to the point of essentially being intertwined. Doubt that will happen with the Arab countries either.

lots of countries with low economic resources are incredibly successful due to business and investment. Look at Singapore. Saudi Arabia has multiple sources of revenue, not just oil. They own shares all over the world, invest heavily in other energy sources like solar power and geothermal, desalination, and also the Hajj pilgrimage.

Look at Dubai, they rely on oil very little, all their wealth comes from investment and realestate.

Tourism, that's why Mohammed forcing Saudi to liberalize their country and so on other gulfies (except Iraq)

Dubai went away from Saudi-levels of dependency but they still rely on it a ton, and the infrastructure boom is only a temporary solution, since you can only create so much at a certain point. Although for Dubai and Saudi Arabia I guess they could be gateways for Africa when it explodes economically. A

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check it out. why would they do this? are they really so cash strapped after a century of selling oil?

saudi arabia doesn't have to worry, they'll always have hajj and umrah to profit from

Singapore is actually still dependant on export-based economy of manufacturing products

It's not a secret they're running dry financially. They have a large young population going for them, but no workforce infrastructure (education, training etc.) to develop them because the country just sat on its ass and relied on oil for so long.

Iraq isn't a gulf country. Iraq is going through an internal struggle between people who want a secular civic state, and religious theocrats who want to model it on hezbollah and iran.

I thought many Saudis went to University?

>Dubai went away from Saudi-levels of dependency but they still rely on it a ton,

You're wrong. You might be thinking of Abu Dhabi. But for Dubai, oil accounts for less than 5%. They relied on oil in the past to get their economy up and running, but not anymore. They now rely heavily on business and finance.

yeah I don't mean they literally don't have schools, just that they aren't good outside of literally 1-2 elite ones and don't prepare them adequately because the country has no practical expertise in any field outside of oil.

what has made humans develope? resources? land? it has always been intelligence, sadly they never invested in that, nobody does it anymore

Doesn't matter, it's still on the Gulf where everyone rely on the oil.

They do. The american is talking out of his ass. Saudi Arabia has massive infrastructure and has invested hugely in other energy sectors and solar power plants, and desalination plants. Saudi Arabia will probably become the world leader in desalination.

Iraq barely has access to the gulf aside from a tiny peninsula. Most of the oil fields are in the marshes and in Kirkuk.

And yes Iraq does rely heavily on oil. Its been in civil war and sanctions for decades and has had a huge brain drain of it's educated upper and middle classes.

Singapore is also one of the most important port cities in the world.

rich Saudis all go to America to get business degrees and do drugs and fuck prostitutes instead of studying useful stuff like engineering, medicine, etc.

see

Do you have a shred of evidence for that that's not anecdotal evidence?

absolutely not, it's fully anecdotal

I went to university as well. All the people doing drugs, partying, fucking, etc. all the time instead of studying were white students and European internationals.

I’ll take two Saudi maid in the future.
They’ll be assigned to keeping my toilet and bathroom clean.

guess which race is going extinct for that and also believes in fantasy world moralfaggotry

According to the official statistics from the Saudi ministry of education, the #1 field among Saudi graduates abroad is Engineering, followed by business and law but those are in the same category so the exact number isn't known. In the third place comes healthcare.
I do agree with you about some rich Saudis being absolute degenerates, but you aren't right about them doing useless degrees.

petroleum engineering, which is pretty one dimensional & wont help saudi

never understood this. how fucking hard is it to keep your toilet and bathroom clean? mine is never dirty.

someone to wash my dishes and clean the floors would be nice though

I really doubt it's mainly petroleum engineering, people who desire that field usually go to King Fahd university in the eastern region here, where they receive job offers before they have even graduated.
Many Saudis are well educated, but the problem is the lack of work ethics + lack of expertise, since the private sector heavily relies on low paid foreign workers, Saudization is a meme.

which type of engineering? with all the money saudi arabia has they should invest in agriculture and chemical engibneerings to transform the desert into a fertile land, and don't come here with a "we already do that" because those farms aren't even 1% of the country and heavily depend on constant supply of water which doesn't existe there.

making the land more fertile as well as harvesting forests of local plants that survive the desertic contitions to change the weather of the region is what I am talking about