Dubai. What do you think of Dubai?

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What I mean is, that apprently in less than a decade Dubai has gone from a nowhere place to a booming mecca for tourism and business. Fantastic architecture, soon to be home to the talles building in the world, home of the tallest and most extravagant hotel in the world. The question is this. Why is it that the people who are building this fanastic city are only getting paid what equals to about $1.00 USD per day? Why are the construction crews living in sub standard labaor camps? Apparently the majority of the workers are foreign. Why would one of the richest places in the world act like this?Oil? Money? Greed? I think this is just shy of slavery. What do you think?"We get 600 dirhams a month ($160)," said one. "They deduct 200 dirhams for our food and it costs another 100 for us to phone home. It's impossible to save anything." Articles http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6141554.stm http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/03/28/uae13090.htm http://www.middle-east-online.com/ENGLISH/?id=18274