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I doubt they have these but they are hardly the only determinents of living standards.
They most certainly do have them:
The healthcare system in Saudi Arabia can be classified as a national health care system in which the government provides health care services through a number of government agencies.
Saudi Arabia has universal coverage. There are two different coverage groups : (1) Saudis and expats working in the public sector, and (2) expatriates working in the private sector. Generally, free health care is regarded as a right for all Saudi citizens and expatriates working in the public sector.
Healthcare in Saudi Arabia: Information from Answers.com
Education
At the time the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was founded in 1932, education was not accessible to everyone and limited to individualized instruction at religious schools in mosques in urban areas. These schools taught Islamic law and basic literacy skills. By the end of the century, Saudi Arabia had a nationwide educational system providing free training from preschool through university to all citizens. The modern Saudi educational system provides quality instruction in diverse fields of modern and traditional arts and sciences. This diversity helps meet the Kingdom's growing need for highly-educated citizens to build on its rapid progress.
Formal primary education began in Saudi Arabia in the 1930s. By 1945, King Abdulaziz bin Abdelrahman Al-Saud, the country's founder, had initiated an extensive program to establish schools in the Kingdom. Six years later, in 1951, the country had 226 schools with 29,887 students. In 1954, the Ministry of Education was established, headed by then Prince Fahd bin Abdulaziz as the first Minister of Education. The first university, now known as King Saud University, was founded in Riyadh in 1957.
Today, Saudi Arabia's nationwide public educational system comprises eight universities, more than 24,000 schools, and a large number of colleges and other educational and training institutions. Open to every citizen, the system provides students with free education, books and health services. Over 25 percent of the annual State budget is for education including vocational training. The Kingdom has also worked on scholarship programs to send students overseas, mainly to the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Malaysia and other nations. Over the past couple of years, thousands of students have been sent to higher-educations programs each year.
Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apparently Saudi Arabia is 77 of countries in the UN Human development index.
HDR 2005 - Country Fact Sheets
76 out of 177, the Ukraine is 77 and how many terrorist are coming out of the Ukraine?
Well here's Marx's idea of alienation, similar ideas have always been part of socialism/anarchism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx's_theory_of_alienation
Here is Erich Fromm on the issue after a lifetime of psychoanaylsis on the victims of capitalism.
Erich Fromm: freedom and alienation, and loving and being, in education
Alienation can have extreme consequences on individuals, it is probably a big part of terrorism, these people cannot find love, hope and community in their surroundings and so find solice in radical Islam.
That is the biggest steaming load I have ever seen in my entire life, Marx is a hack. Who are these people that define themselves by their jobs? And again don't like your job? Save your wages, start a bussiness, and hire people to do it for you.