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The UAE is an independent country and can do whatever it wants. A few weeks ago the guardian was complaining about the "folly" of Musk sending a Roadstar to sp
by wrong_variable 9y ago
The UAE is an independent country and can do whatever it wants.
A few weeks ago the guardian was complaining about the "folly" of Musk sending a Roadstar to space.
It seems to me that anything that is not about feeding poor people is africa is a waste of time if you are a guardian writer.
I am glad that Dubai is pushing the envelop of engineering - yes its kinda stupid - but so was electricity at one point. Maybe these projects will someday lead to them gaining the expertise to turn the middle east into some sort of futurist garden of Eden ?
Compared to the looming war in the Congo, and the humanitarian crisis in Burma, alongside North Korea's nuke - doing a large civil engineering project seems downright nobel.
And the migrant workers getting paid slave wages ..
Are we supposed to pay them 3000 pounds / month like Journalists ? /s
They are getting paid better than what they would get paid back in the countries they are from - sometimes multiple times. I do not see Guardian writers shedding tears for all the folks in 3rd world countries that would consider themselves lucky to go work for tax evading Europeans so that they can feed their family.
- meri_dian 9y agoThese people are beyond hope. They are basically Communists. They can't grasp the benefits of the modern economy and so they just complain. Sure it would be nice if workers were paid more. It would also be nice if a homeless person could sleep in a bed tonight, or at least on a couch. Perhaps a Guardian writer could spare their couch? That wouldn't be too much to ask.
- amenghra 9y agoThere’s a difference between communism and monarchy. It’s not all black and white, but I don’t think you can call Dubai a communist city/state.
- wrong_variable 9y agoHe is not calling Dubai a communist state, he is calling people who are criticizing how a sovereign country spends its income communist - which is true by definition.
- kurthr 9y agoI'm confused by "calling people who are criticizing how a sovereign country spends its income communist - which is true by definition". So if I criticize how a monarchy or a "communist" country (like Dubai or China), or even a "capitalist" country like the US or EU spends their money then... I'm a communist? No. If you recommend that the workers own the means of production then you might be a communist, but it's silly to all criticism communist. You might as well call everyone who criticizes a Nazi (i.e. socialists==communists, am I right?).
- OrganicMSG 9y agoIf that is true by definition, then there are going to be a lot of very surprised macro-economists.