It is safe to assume that people with non-trivial power are very seldom sincere when making public statements. If Dubai's elite's descendants will be riding ca

It is safe to assume that people with non-trivial power are very seldom sincere when making public statements. If Dubai's elite's descendants will be riding camels some decades from now, then why does Dubai have a national wealth fund? The truth is that Dubai's wealth fund may invest in YC or in VC funds, and some of those mocking Dubai's future will be working indirectly for the elites that run Dubai. To distract people from such master-slave reality, a bit of self-deprecation can be charming.