Didn’t know there were 800,000 former members of the New England Patriots out in the K.S.A.
Somebody secretly over-inflated the number?
I worked with a well educated Saudi in a previous life (the only local in a company unit of 250) who told us that a basic problem with the Saudi workforce is that only 20% of working age adults were actually working and maybe half of those were actually qualified to do their jobs.
While it is probable that those numbers have improved somewhat since those days (mid 1990s), just imagine what a social upset a similar situation would cause in a campus full of "professional" entitled students on in an inner city neighborhood. "How dare they expect us to WORK for our entitled benefits!"
While these transitions can be done, they are not easy and have never been attempted on the KSA scale before. The Kingdom of Bahrain is probably the best example. They pumped out the last of their oil 40 years or so ago and made a successful transition into being the regions banking, shopping and tourist center. They also practice a far more laid-back and tolerant brand of Islam, save for a die-hard tribe of Shiites who are the source of almost all the crime and unrest in the idyllic little island kingdom.
When women can drive, you don’t need that 500,000-1,000,000 foreign drivers who existed only for that nation.