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Price is set by the seller; value is the price agreed by seller and buyer.
What motivates a productive citizen in a system built on rent rather than productivity?
Rising prices caused by abundant money strongly affect human consumption behavior.
VAT plays an active role in raising state treasury revenues and strengthening credit standing.
It has become logical to praise a system when it praises productive citizens in a rentier age.
Economic sustainability and actuarial balance are complementary, like harees and cinnamon.
What matters is not price itself, but the benefit received against a price that changes over time.
Not only Aramco or the Public Investment Fund will gain; the whole Saudi economy will.
Those who mourn sustainability often lived their golden age under rentierism.
The relationship between leadership and citizen is not personal; it is governed by macroeconomics.
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