• Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    4 天前

    Dubai isn’t successful, it’s a rich fucks playground but no one wants to actually live in the shithole country.

    A successful country is one where human rights are enjoyed by all, where people are happy, free, and safe. Where the needs are met, and people don’t die unnecessarily.

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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      4 天前

      For those rich fucks, being rich is success. They dgaf about the people.

      A quote commonly attributed to Sheikh Rashid reflected his concern that Dubai’s oil, which was discovered in 1966 and which began production in 1969, would run out within a few generations.

      “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel”,[5][6][note 1]

      He therefore worked to develop the economy of Dubai so that it could survive after the end of oil production, and was a driving force behind a number of major infrastructure projects to promote Dubai as a regional hub for trade

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_bin_Saeed_Al_Maktoum#Development_of_Dubai

    • fullsquare@awful.systems
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      4 天前

      there are people who do want to live there (criminals wanted by their home countries with enough money to stay afloat, as long as uae decides to not extradite them)

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        I’d argue they don’t actually want to live there, it’s just that they’ve run out of other options.

    • neo2478@sh.itjust.works
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      4 天前

      What an amazing way to define success!! I will steal this and share it with the world!!

      Fuck all rich assholes who define success as hoarding wealth!

    • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.world
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      4 天前

      Sold. Adopt me. I’m a poor American refugee trying to escape belly flop-rocket cyberfrucked TACO golden shower up the doge until I tear-if

      • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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        4 天前

        You probably wont like this. Most places who actually care about everyone (except those who want to change that) are socialists. Either authoritarian or libertarian socialists.