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Its obvious that things dont always turn out the way people want them to. And people in the West dont exactly agree on politics and economics.

However, when I was in Egypt a couple years ago, the price of oil was way below market price (about 25 cents a gallon). In Saudi Arabia, the government is much more generous than that. I'd wouldnt trade this country for that, but there's one example of what people in a collectivistic society expect and get from their leaders.