AdamB wrote:
Saudi authorities have detained 11 princes after they gathered at a royal palace in Riyadh in a rare protest against austerity measures that included suspending payment of their utility bills, Saudi media reported on Saturday. Saudi officials did not respond immediately to a request for a comment on the report.
Eleven Saudi princes detained following protest
The sons of the royal princes I met while attending college in 1977-81 were wildly wealthy by the standards I was used to. I was a poor young man, lived like a poor young man, aspired to fix that with a good college degree, and that was fine. These guys drove fancy new cars (Trans Am Firebirds fully loaded seemed to be their car of choice), lived in nice middle class houses, one to a several bedroom house, and had furnishings that to me looked like they might well cost more than the house, the nicest clothes, and on and on.
So I don't know how much has changed and what is typical, but I'm not inclined to assume Saudi prices aren't too poor to pay their utility bills (or generally unable to get a job and earn such money like everyone else).
Even if these folks' families have a wealth on the scale of a hundredth or even a thousandth of the scale of $billions I found with a quick search, somehow I have trouble working up too many tears over their "hardship".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S ... _net_worthAm I missing the blindingly obvious, or is this people spoiled beyond belief?