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Re:Saudi Money Fuels the Tech Industry. It’s Time to Ask Why by fnl on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @02:18AM (#15641563)
> Even if you would need this money to keep your own wife and children alive?

If I'd live under circumstances where I indeed had no other choice, maybe. Luckily, I live in Western society, so the answer to your question is "can't happen here".

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Re:Saudi Money Fuels the Tech Industry. It’s Time to Ask Why by gaius on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @03:30AM (#15641787)
so the answer to your question is "can't happen here"

... right now. But it could not that long ago, and when the wind changes, maybe it could again. Why does the West take oil/blood money? Because we are - no pun intended - a society built on sand.

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