David Bell

Bullshit.

You want me to do stuff?

Yeah.

No.

So government spending was a huge problem, as was the fact that basically no citizens were working.

But just annihilating everyone's income turned out to have negative impacts.

By the start of 2017, economic growth was at 0.4%, a state of affairs most economists would describe as fucked up.

Social media boiled with resentment.

A protest movement began to bubble up.

And on April 22nd of 2017, King Salman was forced to issue a royal decree declaring takesies-backsies on all cuts in allowances, benefits, and bonuses.

The civil services minister was fired for insulting Saudi workers.

And again, he is right.

These guys are at most, in a lot of cases, doing an hour a day of work, you know?

um it's interesting because it's there's certain things in this that i admire and then certain things where i'm like again like okay like i would love to not work much and get paid but i also like it's definitely a sign that things are going bad i do wish more governments issued takesies backsies like they have a horrible policy yeah yeah we're allowed to go hey everybody

Oops.

You know what?

Department of Homeland Security was a mistake.

We're taking away the TSA.

Just get on planes now.

We'll figure it out.