The author acknowledges this in the third paragraph from the bottom: "Perhaps Dubai disturbed me so much, I am thinking, because here, the entire global supply

The author acknowledges this in the third paragraph from the bottom: "Perhaps Dubai disturbed me so much, I am thinking, because here, the entire global supply chain is condensed. Many of my goods are made by semi-enslaved populations desperate for a chance 2,000 miles away; is the only difference that here, they are merely two miles away, and you sometimes get to glimpse their faces? Dubai is Market Fundamentalist Globalisation in One City."