These eight countries have two things in common. First, they are technologically incompetent or, at the very best, criminally lazy. Their educational systems are sad jokes, and local citizens lucky enough to gain technical degrees out-of-region tend not to return. The locals’ incompetence is hardly limited to the energy sector. These countries as a matter of course import millions of foreign workers to handle everything from their power systems to building construction to civic infrastructure. All eight countries rely on outside workers—primarily from the United States, the United Kingdom,
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