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Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Would those perks be extended to most people, or only to a certain subset of people (ie straight, male, religious)? Like, would a bisexual, atheist woman receive the same perks? I get the impression that a lot of people still wouldn’t feel accepted there.

I’m genuinely curious. Your comment prompted me to do a little research. I found that Saudi Arabia has been making strides toward women’s equality in the past few years. It’s doing a lot better than it had been even just six years ago! At the same time, this thread exists, so… I’m skeptical that Saudi Arabia would have enough benefits to outweigh the restrictions that someone like myself would have to live with.

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fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Faux-liberalisation, don’t believe MBS’s lies. It’s better under him, but he’s still a dog.

Even straight arab males don’t get the best treatment here, but it is the highest amount of priviledge a citizen can get (better than being a lesbian, atheist pakistani woman. Basically guaranteed death). You’d need to be a millionaire or a saudi royal to get the stereotypical gulf priviledge.

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- Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Thank you. As I said, I was skeptical. I’m pretty sure I’d hate living there.
  
  I mean, tonight I’ll be going out to dinner with both my boyfriend and my girlfriend, as well as all my coworkers. Everybody knows my lifestyle - I can be open in public, with my two favorite people, and know I’m safe and accepted.
  
  I can’t imagine a single perk the Saudi government can give me that would be better than that.
  
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  - fxomt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    You can’t imagine, because there isn’t :/ Only healthcare is probably better than most countries here for free, but i’d rather be in debt than lose my life or at best, live like a slave.
    
    Have a good date, btw :D
    
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Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The perks are mostly applicable if you are a native or a naturalized citizen, of course royalty are treated like royalty(if you are working there with sizeable qualifications in a government owned company you can expect more perks than say a skilless construction labor) and nobody is testing how religious you are, this isnt NK where you have to constantly look over your shoulder and count if you have publicly glorified the supreme leader or not, You can be atheist without declaring yourself as such, woman had less rights, but MBS is trying to soften his kingdoms image and its striving towards equality, internet censorship is easily circumventable.

This is all based on what people(who work and immigrated) whom i personally know have told me, but i dont know about closeted or openly queer people.

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