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Why do you think Saudi Arabia is slowly allowing women to participate? They need them in the workforce for an economically sustainable future. They know they are heading for crisis rapidly and investing hard to get out of there. However, they are ridiculously dependent on oil. Oil money is basically the whole country's sugar daddy (not for the slaves and foreign workers...). People don't really work there, they all just live off the oil money. Literally every aspect of their lives need to change.

I really doubt the rest of the world needs to be too concerned about them. They are pretty uniquely fucked and not that many people anyway.

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> Why do you think Saudi Arabia is slowly allowing women to participate? They need them in the workforce for an economically sustainable future.

Do they? Has doubling the work-force helped Western economies? I think that Elizabeth Warren & others have questioned that idea - i.e. that the wages were reduced to compensate for the increased labour supply - although even if not beneficial for individual families it could still be beneficial for the economy as a whole (and especially for the capitalist class).

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You make a good point. More workers are just good for the capitalists, unless there is actual work to be done.