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A healthy economy grows sustainably through the self-benefit achieved by its people.
Oil export revenues are sale-based income from a natural resource that can be depleted.
Kuwait’s economy is run with a decentralized method due to varied income channels.
Those who mourn sustainability often lived their golden age under rentierism.
The logic of lower prices may be sound in theory, but price is only a number without power.
A rentier oil-export state has not only economic effects, but political, social, and cultural ones.
Paper currency links human effort to future benefit.
This vision rests mainly on productive efficiency, apart from race, religion, sect, or doctrine.
A citizen would prefer paying tax on a home he owns over paying the same for one he does not.
The rentier economy we witness today is like a cloud blocking vision from sight.
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