The oil contracts don't just include the price of oil, but also a phenomenal number of patronage jobs for the Arab regime. In these countries, unlike the US, your ability to move upward in society is almost entirely based on your relationship. Therefore, their goal is not to work hard and advance, but not to work at all. They view work as being demeaning. The goal is to reach the point where you have a bunch of people working their @sses off to support your life style.
Here, my biggest problem when commanding a fire is keeping my people from advancing into situations that are too dangerous. There, he said it was practically impossible to get people to even enter a burning structure.
Anyone who would enter a burning building is obviously nuts.