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