David Bell

No one's a hero in this, I guess.

Yeah.

but also i would be pissed i'm like listen you promised me money to do nothing for a very long time yeah you promised me money for nothing and the chicks for free man i don't have exactly yeah maybe i'm spoiled but i don't want less money so you can go do a war yeah and the chicks still aren't free you know um no no we're not even allowed to play guitar well actually now we are we are allowed to play the guitar now

That's something.

It's something, right?

In The Man Who Would Be King, Karen House writes, despite warnings from some of his ministers that economic growth would grind to a halt, MBS proceeded.

To add insult to injury, the Saudi civil service minister took to television to accuse government employees of working only an hour a day.

These cuts were paired with slashes to subsidized water, power, and gasoline.

Fuel prices rose by 50%, bringing gas up to a horrifying 96 cents per gallon.

One Saudi economist described the situation thusly, we had Christmas every day and Grinch has stolen it.

again no one's a hero no one's a hero like shit man like should you have had christmas every day is that a good way to run a country well so i like i'm all for living in a utopian society where it's christmas every day but not when it's being paid for by oil money and it's only christmas for a tiny chunk of the population

Yeah, where it's just this group at the cost of everybody else.

That's not good.

But I understand that it's that sort of thing where everybody thinks they're the underdog of their own life.

It doesn't matter how rich you are.

You want more and you feel like you're not getting enough.

So it's like these people clearly were living in their little utopia.

Yeah.

And then they're like, sorry, life has to get slightly realer for you.

And they're like, this is bullshit.