[JohnBovenmyer]

I know an ex-Pat who taught STEM courses at one of their Universities. He said his students were lazy. They need to keep cutting the welfare benefits, both to encourage the locals to get off their duffs, but also because with population growing and oil revenues dropping there just isn’t the money for previous level benefits. It won’t be an easy transition even if it can succeed. And when they discover the well trained part of their population actually willing to work in tech fields is disproportionately female they’re really going to have difficulties with the crazies.

[Vigilanteman]

For sure. The model which worked so well for Bahrain just isn't going to work for KSA. Arabs are natural traders and bargainers, but without the STEM people to actually produce something, there is only so much which can be done with a nation of shopkeepers.

They are going need to import their elites for the foreseeable future to fill their STEM deficiencies. But they are also going to need those on the low end of the economic scale to perform some menial type work even if it is 15 to 20 hours per week to start with, just so they gradually get used to it.

H3ll, the might need to even import one of those Jooze to show them how to grow things in a desert.