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That's less a matter of semitism as it is a matter of hating the concept of work, especially manual labor. Ancients all had their beloved slave cohorts doing everything from farming, to building, to policing, to entertaining...Ancient Greeks had a complex, people here think of construction workers as losers, as filth. If we had oil, we'd be like the saudis, with legions of pakistanis doing the jobs while we drink coffee in our ten thousand adjacent cafeterias. You're trying to apply Aryan Germanic, Protestant even, mentality to a people that never had it.
Besides, we've always been in debt, from 1826 we've been repenting for Navarino, for pulling that gift card out the ass, and this land being a giant mountain and pebbles in the sea doesn't pay it off!