What's crazy about socities like Saudi or the Gulf is the native people don't work. It's 50 million people living off oil money.
But it's not like they are creating great art. There's no interesting films. Songs. Literature. Games.
It's just guys hanging out all day
Not only are saudis unbelievably lazy, but most forms of work are heavily stigmatized in their feckless society. Recent examples include the major controversy over a saudi working as a security guard in Medina, and before that, a saudi working as a barista in Jeddah.