Comments by "Sedna063" (@Sedna063) on "Wendover Productions" channel.

  1.  @ezix3753  Saudi Arabia may have nature and historical sites but they aren't well developed at all. There is very little pre-islamic left and the city of Mecca and other holy places are prohibited for non-muslims like me. Plus, the way they reconstructed Mecca looks horrid to me. I saw old pictures from 1910 - so much more impressive.
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  2.  @Oripave  yeah, he deleted it. Frankly he wrote a stupid comment. That the US would collapse with Saudi oil, that Europe would collapse, that all the muslim world would support Saudi Arabia in their fight…
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  3. Government will probably find anouther source of taxation. Probably electricity if we have replaced oil sufficiently. Governments are very creative when drawing taxes.
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  4.  @Crazy-ej5gb  I have yet to read a more stupid comment than today. If you cut oil, China will come and demand oil to be flowing... And they won't ask nicely. The US is energy independent now. Have been for a while. Fracking and increased investment into green energy already reduced demand for Saudi oil. The US only accounts for 5% of Saudi trade and only imports 10 billions worth of Saudi oil. Obama bowed to Japans prime minister and the queen too. That is called manners. Etiquette. If Saudi Arabia decides to cut oil flow, prices will rise inevitably but the beneficiaries won't be other Arab nations. OPEC doesn't control oil as they used to. Russian and American producers would profit and Saudi Arabia will needlessly cut their income at a time when they need the income to a) fight an unproductive war, b) try to be seen as a reliable business partner for investment and c) have substantial costs with new development projects such as Neom. 500 billion for a city to copy Dubai. And I doubt muslims all over the world will support you. An oil price hike will hit their economies too and during covid, that is the last they could need. Use your brain please.
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  5. They need Skillshare...
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  6.  @deathrow6625  They still do but they all love healthcare, HVAC and modern housing...
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  7.  @xizang3815  Deadly covid toxins can be countered with a vaccination...
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  8.  @ezix3753  I am strictly talking about the tourism sector, not Saudi Arabia at large. Natural wonders of Saudi Arabia are virtually unknown and the cultural heritage is buried deep...
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  9.  @garystrankman3841  Plus healthcare and they obviously like food. They are 35 million people now. Saudi Arabia couldn't hope to feed them all from their desert land.
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  10.  @jerome_morrow  Young population, quite educated at that. Lots of cash. They have lots of oil tech. But that is about it. And a huge clout in religious matters...
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  11.  @garystrankman3841  Saudi Arabia is a huge investor for land in Sudan for that precise reason. Their groundwater levels have been used up by inefficient use for water intensive crops.
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  12.  @boygenius538_8  What a nice gesture. I am not aware of any city in the west that is closed to non-christians...
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  13.  @ezix3753  Sure but Saudi Arabia is home to some old civiliations and I would like to see them, not some skyscraper.
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  14.  @Dfathurr  The thing is that Hajj does have limits - the mosque can only be built so big and the month is only that long... So there are limits on Hajj income. Plus, most muslims come from not so rich backgrounds. Spend a week for Hajj may require years of saving for many families - they aren't all that likely to spend another week in a high cost country like Saudi Arabia.
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  15. It is very much true. Although a lot of the new entertainment is designed so that Saudi citizens spend their weekends and holidays inside the country, paying for entertainment here (which can be taxed and employs Saudis). But creating an innovative economy takes a lot of time and would require a lot of investment for uncertain yield. Tourism has the advantage that you can implement it relatively fast and that it is a labour intensive sector - creating a lot of jobs for Saudi citizens (at least this is the plan). In time, with educational reforms and investments into R&D through private sector industries, this will change.
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  16. You guy have clearly no idea about anything. Doesn't seem as if you ever paid a tuition fee for college. At first, European nations are much, much smaller than the USA, both in landsize and population. Naturally, we therefore have a lower GDP. However, divide GDP's by population and you will not see a big difference. Maybe a few thousand bucks but that is not much. Secondly, you have a very limited understanding of European "socialism". We pay higher taxes but compared to the average American, the average German will usually be much better covered medically, will be provided a pension and if he gets unemployed, will generally not loose everything. Not even health care. Oh, and before I forget, taxes are similar, only the social founding is different, check Bismark system for this. And where is Venasala? Close to Covfefe? Talking about budget, Germany manages a healthy positive budget even with refugees and other unwanted expenses. You just waist yours for your military. You got nukes but do you need 6k of them? 1000 should be enough. I also do not understand why 10,000 tanks make your life safer. It is about choices you make. Should we pay more for defense, hell yes but you should quit some spending for other stuff. And social security is of course reducing crime. Who needs crime if you get help? And it is clever to let the rest pay for your education. You will benefit later, though not individually but society. Not just rich kids going to uni but instead the brightest and smartest.
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  17.  @kiriica4182  OPEC no longer has the same market power. And OPEC is full of internal conflicts
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  18.  @minus3dbintheteens60  True but the main demand for oil is still energy. That will take a very big chunk out of the income of oil-exporting nations.
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  19. Sad thing if people want China to be the dominant world power. Censorship, loss of freedom.
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  20.  @ezix3753  I really don't care for clothing. What is with old building, prehistoric sites, historical sites? Museums of prehistoric history? Such things virtually do not exist.
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  21. I think Tunisia can become a shining beacon in the world. I hope that your economic troubles and current political situation does solve itself so that the good people of Tunisia can life a worthy life. Kind regards from Germany.
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  22. The price he mentions is the price at which Saudi Arabia can turn a net profit on oil and cover all the government expenses without debt. Saudi Arabia itself has some of the lowest oil production costs, some oil fields don't even cost 10$ a barrel. But those are depleting fast.
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  23.  @Oripave  indeed. He probably realised it as well.
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  24.  @yt75009  Very compelling argument from you…. Anything more substantial or are You just wasting bits and bytes?
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  25. Actually no. Many of those poor nations may skip fossil fuels entirely. There are many African nations that, in order to electrify, only use or mostly use renewable energy programmes since this is what they get funding for and b) because it makes economic sense. A developing country in Africa needs a one time investment for a solar park and then this thing runs perpetually. No need for maintenance, oil / gas / coal costs...
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  26. Actually no.
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  27.  @emanhamed4939  Not too bad a problem. There are technological solutions for this already and if not, there is enough unemployed labour that could be paid to clean panels during the night.
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  28. You forget one thing. The financial markets trust these governments to pay their debt back. They do not trust Ghana.
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  29. They have actually changed text books and now try to change education too. Although afaik more than half of their PhDs are in islamic studies...
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  30.  @Ali-gd3ud  The thing is, that water is fossile water which is not replenishable. Meaning that it is a finite reserve. As for the land purchases, this might be enough for a while but governments across the world will not necessarily continue, not when their population exert a lot of pressure on their governments to provide the land they need for themselves.
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  31. Taiwan is a country.
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  32.  @zihanwang2442  Because this is what happened countless of times in history. French revolution for example...
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  33. What should the CIA or the US have done about it? He was a resident but not a citizen. He also was a member of Muslim Brotherhood...
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  34. Yes, thousands of Saudis already commented on that mistake. Could you be so kind and point out where else he is false?
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  35.  @sultanalsharif4673  Ah yes, the break even price he means is probably for the Saudi budget and not for the production costs. A minor mistake.
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  36.  @sultanalsharif4673  Yes, I have seen many here denying the entire accuracy of this video by those kind of mistakes. They should realise that this is a Youtuber, not a PhD lecture at Harvard Business School.
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  37. Germany and how geography influenced it?
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  38. Wow, very generous.
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  39. And they sell this as a reform on women’s rights… In reality they just arrived at a point in modernity ever other nation has
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  40. Actually plastics and other stuff is 1/3 of oil usage. And many nations try to replace plastics with more sustainable sources.
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  41.  @ColinWoods-by9my  Yeah, definitely. They didn't allow a nobel peace prize winner out of the country. Forced labour camps, no fair trial.
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  42.  @Neccaps  Absolutely correct, although the problem is exacerbated for women. As for corruption, it is perceived more in Saudi Arabia than in Dubai. Most publications estimate it to be more of a problem in SA than in Dubai. Absolutely true, overqualification can be an issue. You should look to South Korea where a bachelor degree qualifies for a McDonalds... Saudi Arabia needs to attract businesses and innovation that would use those highly skilled talent that is there. But that doesn't happen all that often in highly restrictive nations. There are lots of studies on how male-female interaction is the most productive.
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  43. Actually, there was a lot of investment into Africa (because it was their own territory). Many african nations solely rely on colonial infrastructure.
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  44.  @rohithkumarsp  Actually that would be bad. 1) there could be a more radical government 2) economic repercussions
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  45.  @rohithkumarsp  Religion is not inherently bad, although the intolerance and the society of SA aren't desirable for me. Yet in this case, it unites a country. Without it, expect a civil war.
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  46. When was the UK ever a superpower?
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  47. Saudi citizens actually seek employment. And there aren’t enough jobs because the citizens are either unwilling to do the job or not skilled enough for private sector to do the job… If 9 weeks of school in a school year are centered around religious education (with doubtful relevance in a modern economy and a hindrance in intercultural relations) and 23 weeks for the rest, that is a problem. Especially if the Saudi system does not teach critical rhinking skills and problem solving but rather memorisation.
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  48.  @billgreen576  True. As I said, Saudis have long been highly pampered with easy government jobs which require little to no skill. But that is changing and they will have to adapt.
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  49. If they would get the funding they need....
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  50. The social contract is increasingly unfinanciable
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  51. Why should a Youtube Personality do the job of the US government?
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  52. Why judge when it is over? Any modern manager would tell you that you control your business during the process and not wait until you are done to evaluate.
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  53.  @Abu_miller  There are not nearly enough dates and milk to support the entire saudi pop. And I doubt the majority of Saudis would like this. Not after all the perks of modern tech.
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  54. Well, you aren’t evil but we definitely don’t like the way society treats some individuals. Trust in God, ok, but God doesn’t cater your wishes. God gave free will and basically made earth our playground. Trust in yourself, get up, work hard, create a better society. Then, after you die, God will see and judge. But he won’t fix your problems for you.
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  55.  @stevencaldwell838  Have fun
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  56.  @muslimbrother27  Why would non-Christians go to places like the Vatican, visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre? Why would people visit Hindu Temples? Because even without subscribing to the faith, one may want to see a place of art or historical significance which Mecca and Medina undoubtedly are.
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  57. I am not inclined to agree completely. Iran in all honesty has made a better show how to diversify the economy. They are suffering due to sanctions mostly, but they have a rather diverse economy. Venezuela completely broke, and Iraq, Libya are failed states. As for Nigeria, the government revenue is oil but there is a lot of economic diversity outside the government. They will be fine. Saudi Arabia has a much different society than Nigeria, where the ordinary person wasn't dependent on oil incomes through government.
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  58.  @rami8896  We are actually doing fine
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  59. Just type „problems in America“… you will find many millions of videos about America done by Americans…
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  60.  @davidhimmelsbach557  Oh yes, Yemen is a special case on the peninsula but we are talking about Saudi Arabia, not Yemen.
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  61. Doubt they will be in a state of war. Most of the wars there happen for entirely different reasons than just oil. UAE and Qatar will be fine. They have small populations, huge oil wealth and have largely made a transition from oil to services. They will have a future. Oman is an interesting case but they will be alright too. Yemen is a failed shithole. No other way to say it. Saudi Arabia is very late to the game, they might take a big ass cut to their prosperity. Jordan has never relied on oil as a source of wealth and with one of the best school systems in the MENA region they will do alright with a moderate and careful government. Israel obviously relies on innovation. Syria is a shithole, Iraq is a failed state, Kuwait and Bahrain have largely stayed under the radar but they will continue to exist. Egypt is my biggest worry though. Explosive population growth with water stress already and things don't seem to improve.
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  62. Shall I explain
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  63. Actually the US declared no wars for oil resources. They have their own oil.
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  64.  @vv7650  ?
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  65. Russia will not be a powerhouse. And they have enough oil
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  66. @Ahmed Russia has longterm contracts with many countries and nobody will be foolish enough to place their entire stock into KSA. Who cannot fill the demand…
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  67. @Ahmed Because ypu don’t want to rely 100% on one supplier. Imagine if a war breaks out; what will happen with the oil supplies? And Saudi Arabia can not cover the global demand alone
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  68. The 2020 map looks so sad
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  69. The US is energy independent. They only export some 10 billions worth of oil from SA.
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  70. You may point out the incorrect data,
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  71. Ptoblem is that OPEC got a lot pf players that have divergent interests and OPEC doesn’t have nearly the same control over oil that the FED got over the US dollar.
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  72.  @muminadi5400  opec only controls some 50% of global oil supply…
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  73. The decisions are even less transparent than in China... China had until recently left business alone.
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  74. And what will I see? The polished image
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  75. What do you think must change in Saudi society?
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  76. You are literally the 1000th comment on this one...
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  77.  @essa07  Actually, this is an honest mistake. You can find the data he says there are. I read the economist and this magazine comes to the same conclusion
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  78. What should this word garbage even mean`?
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  79. Dubai isn't reliant on oil. But you are correct, there is nothing that Neom offers that you can't get elsewhere.
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  80. LOL
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  81. Have you ever driven an electric car? I have and they are great.
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  82.  @thewiseguy3529  First, I love it when people like their own comments lol. Secondly, Idk where you live, there are chargers all around. I almost exclusively use electric car when doing stuff around my area and charge at home. Since we have two cars, one is for those really long drives. The other is good for anything that happens in town.
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  83. I thought Vision 2030 started earlier than this. 2. Find me the statistics where it is written that " Saudi Arabia is the government most loved by the people". I highly doubt that. I also doubt such statistics as in a country without some freedoms, people may not be open to actually discuss their views... 3. Find me that prediction! Russia has vast untapped reserves in the arctic and the US does have several unexplored oil fields too. But lets hope we get rid of oil to a large extend. 4. The usage of oil is primarily still for energy. In 2019 oil sector by usage: -Road: 35% -Electricity: 19% -Non-road transport: 11% -Petrochemicals: 13% -Others: 20% So basically, 65% of oil usage are transport and energy generation. If that alone were cut down by half, oil consumption worldwide would drop by 1/3. And for strategic interests, many nations will keep producing for their own economy, meaning Saudi Arabia will have to produce less, sell less. 5. The world won't consume every last bit. Much earlier, people will look for replacements as prices rise for those oil products. And they will find better alternatives.
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  84.  @thetreader  1. Your example is faulty. That isn't freedom of speech, this is slander and punishable depending on the nations laws. By the way, what is "much cleaner"? If I advocate for a different government policy I can be arrested in Saudi Arabia. I am also very much doubting your claim that you won't find liars in your community. I find this paragraph of you highly amusing and saddening at the same time. 2. Oil production. As I said above, nations with oil wells will continue to produce oil if only for strategic reasons. And if Venezuela would get their act together, they would have a strong chance to take a lot of Saudi Business. 3. True, oil consumption will possibly rise for a while. But oil as a factor of the economy will decline in the future. With the world going electric and replacing oil energy that is a drastic cut. There are innovative works on plastics replacements done which would possibly reduce oil consumption even further. Africa might even skip oil entirely. The Japanese example isn't the best I would say. Japan has extensively modernised their society over the past decades and immensely invested into education and technology. Something that has yet to be done by Saudi Arabia. Detailed spending plans on education and R&D are hard to come by but they aren't nearly anywhere to Japanese spending on R&D. And for a nation with a youth bulge, 5.8% GDP spending on education (2018) isn't all that impressive. Plus, the results of the education in SA are reportedly a mixed bag with inadequate skills and rote learning. Plus inbalances in the curriculum. There are reasons why so many foreigners work in Saudi Arabia. The leadership has done steps in the right way but whether this is enough to succeed I doubt it. For that matter, I think the current vision is way too much of a copy of the UAE which does not adequately reflect strengths and weaknesses of Saudi Arabia; namely a large proportion of youthful citizens but without a big history as a touristy destination especially for non-muslim cultures. 4. Why do you claim this battery nonsense? Lithium is the third most abundant material in the universe and on earth it is highly abundant. We have proven reserves of 21 million and resources are estimated to be at over 80 million tons (we only used 80,000 tons last year). Plus, battery technology is always evolving and soon Lithium may not be the most sought-after material. And obviously, there is recycling. Lastly, oceanic reserves are virtually unlimited. It could be a byproduct of desalination. Anyway, Saudi Arabia definitely has a future. Not oil though, that will fade. But with the infrastructure in place, they can export hydrogen and even lithium if desalination is increasing. But to become an investment hub, Saudi Arabia needs to change a lot. Change isn't always bad. (In respect to #1, this is freedom of speech).
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  85.  @baba9665  Saudi Arabia won‘t die - there is just too much capital in this nation. But they will see a significant reduction in standards of living if they cannot modernise their economy and move away from a rentier system to a productive modern economy.
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  86. He was not an American citizen
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  87.  @madrigale6396  Probably. Then again I wouldn’t hide the fact that Khashoggi wasn’t someone who supported America. He was a muslim brotherhood member. I don’t like those fellas
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  88. Nobody wants Saudi Arabia to become Hollywood. Merely to make the journey into the 21st century...
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  89. He did mention them...
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  90.  @bosanski_Cevap  Thats too simple. Nobody forced them to forego maintenance on their dams and oil wells or to completely get rid of private businessownership...
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  91. Not sure about stoning but they chop
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  92. Hard to answer because the West and Saudi Arabia have a different idea what terrorism is. Saudi Arabia does not financially support terrorist organisations such as Al-Qaida, IS... but their private citizens have done so in the past. There appears to be a crack down on this though because even for Saudis this is too radical. On the other hand, Saudi Arabia still sponsors salafism and wahabism world wide and this ideology has a very, very high chance to further radicalise people as seen with multiple terror attacks. Saudi Arabia preaches an intolerant islam and that is coming back to bite them. Let's hope that MBS does something good and modernises schooling and decrease the islamist content spread. Weirdly enough, many Saudi kids party hard in neighbouring, more liberal nations.
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  93.  @mohamedalrashed3888  actually the largest fund is that of Norway. A nation which has a much more diversified economy and smaller pop.
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  94.  @UzairSohail-tf3hc  Actually they would want her money...
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  95.  @UzairSohail-tf3hc Not really. There is a surprising amount of poverty in KSA. Plus life isn't cheap and the unemployment is high, especially youth unemployment. They want all the commerce and tourism they can get so that they can finance their expensive country (living in a desert with HVAC, water and modern lifestyle isn't cheap). Anyway, I never understood all the hate against other people like LGBTQ.
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  96. @Ingeniator Abderamus What is it to you what two consenting adults do with their time in the bedroom? Does it somehow negatively affect you? And yes it is about love. Not all love is sexual anyway but I doubt people would be ok when a loving gay couple would live together in Saudi Arabia even if both are asexual… Anyway; while citizens do have access to extensive benefits, the costs for those are staggering yet many people are not prosperous enough to really escape poverty. That would only be happening with extensive and long term job growth but there is little evidence for it happening right now.
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  97. True, but pilots don't even get a degree. They get a license to fly and that is about it. There is a very limited market outside passenger traffic for pilots with their skills.
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  98.  @zaramuhx  Yes, there is that. And just that. Your entire skill is focused solely on the commercial airline industry. Your skills developed won't be of good use in other areas. If I study anything related to computers I can work everywhere with computers. Pilots flying commercial jets have no other qualifications. And that is a problem.
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  99. 100k for Lufthansa as an entry level? That may be in the 70s but today, no way. A beginning Lufthansa Pilot makes 65,000 maximum. And he has to pay back Lufthansa for his education.
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  100.  @Mike25654  And as I said, no entry level pilot makes 100k. Plus, most people educated at Lufthansa aren’t taken over by Lufthansa
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  101. So they don’t kill dissidents and have death penalty
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  102. The belt and road initiative so far did not result in a much changed geography for China. Plus, trains are much less flexible transportation modes than ships are. And no, countries like the Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam can ally with each other to produce a counter weight which is what typically happens unless China makes them an offer that is very good for them.
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  103. The alternative was that highly educated women just sit about. They are generally better educated than men in Saudi Arabia, more study in universities... Oh yes, they can be overcome. But the government is trying to emulate the success of the UAE which, like Dubai, are now largely independent on oil income after a successful diversification strategy. And that means more private sector work which also means that there is a lot of competition. Saudi Arabia has a young population. But the success of Dubai cannot be repeated if you only consider 1/2 of the population. The main flaw is that innovation and private sector employment cannot be mandated from above.
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  104. I trust western news more than Saudi news sorry. As for the success of the new strategy, he is correct though.
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  105. It's an easy to make mistake... While he should have edited more carefully, he is correct with the data
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  106. CIA has released information that MBS ordered the kill
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  107. If they ban religion, the government would fall.
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  108. Still not a real superpower. They hadn't had the global influence the USA and Russia had. France and other countries were equally strong. You call those european empires greatpowers but superpowers are reserved for the USSR and USA. Thats what my history teacher always said.
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  109. Do what to Indonesia.
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  110. You are right and wrong: 1. I agree with your comments on the airline system. 2. You can change your electricity production to renewables like many nations do right now. Additionally, the train has a very low per capita power consumption so it is still relatively green compared to other things. 3. Trains with Diesel engines will not be suitable for fast high speed transport. 4. Taxes on people are ok as long as we get a return in the sense of infrastructure. 5. The Marshall Plan did not really bring the rail system up again, the damages were too big and it took 15 years to repair it. Marshall Plan was mainly political, the money was a drop in the bucket but appreciated. The UK actually received Marshall Aid too; they just didn't use the cash to invest it and used it to pay back some loans to the US. The US economy profited due to vast amounts of defence spending.
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  111. Shouldn't Saudi Arabia invest more into solar? I mean, this is why you have a desert...
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  112. I wouldn’t bet on it. Saudi Arabia does have money and a comparably educated workforce with a quality infrastructure. Much better than Egypt for example.
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  113.  @christianlibertarian5488  Me too. I hope their leadership and society get rid of fundamentalism and look more for Turkey or alternatively to UAE as a more inclusive and tolerant role model. I prefer Turkey because it is a secular nation with a democratic tradition which is much more compatible with human rights and imho more prepared for the challenges of the 21st century
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  114. Congrats, you are the 2517th comment pointing this out
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  115.  @Staar8oy99  Why? We have quite nice lifes. At least I do.
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  116.  @Staar8oy99  Media need to bring news. Having news such as "90% of people in the middle east have a job" isn't news. I have been to the middle east. As a tourist though. Anyway, there are a lot of things happening in this region and often they involve terror, deaths, economic decline. Obviously media reports on those. They also report negatively on the US and Europe. So I really don't understand how you think that they only report positively about the western world. They really don't.
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  117.  @Staar8oy99  And by the way, what do you mean "you don't know what life means"
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  118.  @Staar8oy99  Then you need to watch the news more often. I have read a lot of criticism on the US in American media, on Germany in German media. On politicians, celebrities et cetera. Really, Idk why you don't see this.
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  119. Such a high ranking mission is simply not done without the highest cover
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  120. I doubt the Princesses can.
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  121. There might be peak oil demand though...
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  122. Saudi Arabia could potentially be a huge solar energy hub. And Data centers, the cooling costs would be prohibitive.
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  123. What is wrong with it?
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  124. 7% of US economy? Where in the world did you get that idea? Millions of pilgrims, true, but MBS wants income. Pilgrims are quite costly for the Saudi state. He wants wealthy western tourists to spend thousands of dollars, who sit in luxury hotels… Human rights are for everyone… for you and me
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  125. Please label these sources as belonging to "Islamic Brotherhood supporters" because I think you just use this to slander the sources (obviously I don't like those guys...). There is more to being tourist open than just a visa...
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  126.  @erichuang5785  There is a difference between routine and between forced labour camps without a fair trial
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  127.  @maheshdave8012  Germany never had significant colonies. We just invested in tech and sciences and modernised, whereas China 1000 bc had the same state 1800 ad.
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  128.  @maheshdave8012  Yes, Britain did a lot of bad stuff. However, colonisation ended 50-60 years ago, some countries made it, others didn't.
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  129. Saudi Arabia needs an oil price of some 80$ to break even the government budget. The costs of oil production can be as low as you said.
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  130. Yes you would. Obviously they can’t mind read so you would be fine if you shut up. But 10 years ago Our life would have been very dull.
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  131. Actually Europe imports all those metals from other nations that live in peace. You can’t mine in a warzone… No corporation will invest a dollar into a civil war zone
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  132. That’s what they plan but they have a history of grandiose plans that never came to fruition. First, they want to reduce their own dependence on oil. They consume so much oil, it is no longer holy; they have such high demands for electricity and a car culture…
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  133. @Ahmed Well, I have seen several pledges in the past but I will believe it when I see it done
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  134.  @88AsAs  I do believe in a God, although not necessarily in the way the monotheist religions do. There is a higher force out there but I doubt it ever spoke to us and specifically influenced us. As for 3 gods, Christians do not believe in 3 gods. Christians believe in one omnipotent God which has taken different forms at different times. But they are only forms, not other gods. Anyway, I just hope for a world where we all can live our beliefs freely without any one religion trying to dominate one or persecute another or calling others infidels… Let people believe what they want. Maybe they are right. Believe =/= knowledge.
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  135. Their main source of income will exist for the longest time. But their population is rising fast, more than 40% of Saudis is under 25 years and therefore going to start a family in the future. The TFR in 2013 was almost 3 (now down to 1.92) well above replacement rate. So no, they actually have a shit load of young people that will demand the same benefits as their parent generation received. As for tourism, they mainly have Riyadh and Mecca. Mecca for the religious pilgrims and Riyadh for the rest. If they want more tourism, they need to open the society. Nobody will do mass tourism if they cannot enjoy some western civilisation. Even in Dubai you can run around without a Hijab and consume alcohol in licensed places. Not possible in Saudi Arabia as of yet. And culture has basically been left to rot for the past 40 years. Pre-islamic history was silenced before. Doubt they can become a cultural and tourism hub. They should probably focus to turn Saudi Arabia into a knowledge society which will run industries and innovate. Doubt they can though.
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  136. Nobody should be investing into crypto, it is a scam and the comments here are just bots. Just stop it...
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  137.  Christian Jesus 🙏  No worries, I know you are a scam too. Fake profile joined 23.06.2022. Anyone who advertises on Youtube like this isn't trustworthy. It is just annoying. Cause nobody buys that 10 people know one guy and they all comment on the same Youtube Video simultaneously.
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  138. Actually he is taking steps that were urgently needed 10 years earlier… Unemployment is too high. Check Saudi population boom, obviously they can’t all be public sector employees with all perks. They should have diversified their income sources 20 years ago.
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  139. Watch the video. Republicans wouldn’t fare better
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  140.  @ezix3753  Holiday tourism not known in the Middle East? Please - Lebanon, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey… all had vibrant tourism industries before the first skyscraper in Dubai was built.
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  141. You can be so nice and point them out. And I want the data about the success of Vision 2030, not the mistake with the false region.
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  142. True, they weren't only nomadic. Did he claim that? We know there were cities. Let's be generous and check unemployment rate for 2019: 6.13%. But that is not the whole picture. Who is counted? Saudi nationals only? Inhabitants including foreign workers? Let's say this is all Saudi Nationals. There are other metrics though. For example labour participation rate. How many working age people actually have a job. It has fallen further, to 49.5%. There is severe structural unemployment and unemployment among women. 49.5% is absolutely dreadful. A waste of money on teachers and school buildings. With more and more Saudi kids becoming working age, expect this to rise. There exist a lot of doubt whether the actual killers were trialed. Such a murder isn't done without the knowledge of the highest echelons of power. He should have been more careful there. I don't miss Khashoggi though; he had some right instincts but a lot of wrong instincts too. I'd rather have a strongmen working productively. I can't possibly comment on that one but know this; separated spaces according gender is quite a hindrance to productivity...
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  143. Yes, because it carefully created an image over the past 60 years and developed a unique way of "tolerance". They actually allow alcohol in some places et cetera. Their investment is heavily into tourism and trade which needs an openness. As for Saudi Arabia, the costs of doing business are just very high. Gender separation is such a stupid and business killing concept.
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  144. One day there will be peak oil. But it will be peak oil demand.
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  145. Peak oil can also be peak oil demand. With nations going increasingly electric and green, demand will inevitably fall.
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  146.  @stevenikitas8170  Green energy does work. The costs are steadily falling for green energy and with increasing installed capacity things will go greener. As for Texas, don't blame it on green energy. Blame Texas regulations that basically decoupled the network and the cold snap affected gas and other fossil fuels as well. Anyway, Green will go forward. Coal is phased out, gas and oil are in the process to be phased out.
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  147. Because this is not the topic of the video… it
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  148. Yep, he tries to reform but if he is successful, that remains to be seen. What do you mean with "starting with the people idea of the right way to live". Does that mean alternative living concepts will become more acceptable? Please, what great innovators? Saudi Arabia is known to be advanced in oil processing and hydrocarbon tech but not in other fields. Khassogi - most commentators, including the CIA see some pawns punished and not the people who gave the pawns the job. Such a murder is not done without the knowledge of the highest powers! Saudi Arabia is indeed a big opportunity but as anyone knows, it could also be a big risk.
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  149.  @ziyadzerh1953  While I agree about the instincts of Al Saud family, I do not think this as different from any other ruling family. As for the Ottomans, the Arabs are not Turks, are not Ottomans. That they want their own country is entirely justified and nobody should fault them for it. Yes, they are clandestine supporters of Israel. And why not? Israel is a highly successful nation with the highest standards in the middle east. A technological leader and investment hub with much of the same problems as Saudi Arabia has. Yes, their religious views are political weapons and need to be contained.
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  150.  @ziyadzerh1953  Actually a muslim is someone who believes in Allah at the most fundamental level. As for betraying other people, weren’t Saudis or Arabs not betrayed by the Ottomans during the conquests of the latter? Israel is a highly innovative nation that has already developed solutions for problems that Saudi Arabia faces. Should there really be religious dogmatism when collaboration could be a much more fruitful endeavour for the betterment of both nations irrespective of faith (or absent of faith)?
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  151.  @ziyadzerh1953  The prophet said a lot of things, some things have contradictions with others. Conquest is just a part of life. Has been before and will be after we both are dead. Islam spread through conquest… Israel isn‘t the enemy of muslims… Israel is however a welcomed distraction for arab governments as a focal point to deflect criticism to there. Thousands of people are killed annually by others in the Arab world but Israel is the problem? Most people in the MENA region aren’t even a little impacted by Israel… In fact, many arab Israelis are living a quiet life there with political participation in a stable nation with good economy and healthcare…
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  152. Cause they had a few decades in the lead. Turkey is secular for a century now and has a strong manufacturing and science base. Although they do their best to get rid of that… Qatar is a small nation with stagnant indigenous population. They have enough money to live on the returns of investment, UAE also successfully liberalised their society to an appropriate extend for expats and tourists. They are far enough for non-oil income. Indonesia has always practised a more open and tolerant Islam and has centuries of practise. Malaysia is similar in this regard. Egypt by size alone will have an internal market and houses a number of minorities. Problems exist though. The problems with Saudi Arabia is that people in the world only see Saudi Arabia as this strict intolerant muslim nation which practises a radical form of Islam that roots the country in a backwardness. I mean, women just recently got the right to drive around… there wasn‘t much of a cultural scene. It will take Saudi Arabia decades to reverse the image and it would take a concentrated effort to liberalise the society to the UAE extend. It is unclear whether they would go for it though.
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  153. The entire population in this area has exploded, although the birth rates for Saudi Arabia have already declined. TFR is now hovering at around 2.0 and the number of live newborns has been steadily at some 580.000 newborns annually. The median age is already at 31.8 years and this is expected to rise sharply over the next decades. The Saudi growth will continue but will reach a plateau at around 2040 and then begin to decline if trends continue as they are. Their curve will look like Germany today.
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  154.  @nejdi3749  actually the Vatican is open to any denomination of faith. Only expected to dress modestly.
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  155. Break even is for government budget. Production costs are like 10 dollars for some fields
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