Aneirin
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From: Tamaris
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My experience of a few middle east countries is that where they used to offer big money for foreigners to come out and do the job for them, they in recent years, say the past fifteen or so years have been sending their own people abroad to learn the skills necessary to run their own show. Now understandably this is perhaps for those with money, but, isn't it always, even within our own lands, money gets better education.
But the Arab countries have the very same problem as us, imported labour that works for less than a county's own people. Relative afluence is also a factor in that as people become better off, they are less likely to do for want of a better word, the shitty jobs.
I once saw a gang of brightly overalled people right out in the desert removing the ubiquitous blue plastic carrier bags that had blown onto and got tangled up on the camel fences, right in the middle of nowhere, where the dunes encroach onto the roads, all they had was a water bowser towed by an old coach with no windows in it and that was it, they were foreign labour, Gugaratis were common at that time, a shitty job, who'd do that in the middle of summer with sod all shade except the coach and bowser, temperature I believe was 150 f in the shade, I had Japanese air conditioning and there was no way I was opening the oven door to let that heat in.
But many who go to those countries for a better life do get a better life compared to their home lands, and they fulfill a necessary requirement in society, they do the jobs that very much need doing, that the more afluent nationals won't do because of the nature, or the pay, they are the same as us, no difference there.
Now, although the political boundaries and names might have changed, these countries have been there a long time and people have lived there and functioned so as to become a society, so therefore, they are quite capable of living in those countries, and the ancient way of life may very well come back again soon, when cheap energy becomes not so cheap or even non existant, so why bother gearing up for something that requires a lot of a dwindling resource, it makes no sense, perhaps it is beter to sell that resource to eager others than rely on it oneself, for it won't be there forever.
Maybe those in the Arab countries are wiser than us in this, perhaps we are doomed to fail when our energy source fails, where they will carry on as they have always done with their primitive ways and undoubtedly succeed as they have always done.
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