On: Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland

[luckylion]

> So Saudi Arabia, UAE, Canada and Saudi Arabia are 'stuck' selling natural resources?

Canada maybe not so much, but Saudi Arabia and the UAE? Yeah, and I think they understand that as well. If we have a fusion breakthrough next year, what will Saudi Arabia export besides Wahhabism?

[m12k → luckylion]

The Saudi royal family is busy buying as much of Silicon Valley as they can, to ensure they can still live atop a mountain of cash once the oil runs out. As for the rest of the country - yeah, they are royally fucked (pun intended) since no other industry than oil was ever developed.

[arethuza → m12k]

They seem to be trying to develop their tourist industry - I keep getting adverts for holidays there!

[andrepd → arethuza]

It's possibly one of countries in the world I'm least interested in visiting.

[nasmorn → andrepd]

Where else to go to a good oldfashioned lashing?

[arethuza → nasmorn]

Saudi Arabia apparently has stopped using flogging:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/25/saudi-arabia-t...

However, plenty places still use corporal punishment, including Singapore:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_corporal_punishment

[I-M-S → arethuza]

Public beheading then (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deera_Square)

[TeMPOraL → luckylion]

Or more likely, what happens when the oil wells eventually run dry? Or even, what happens in the years before, when those wells start producing less and less oil?