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[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 130 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

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 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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)

[-] neo2478@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

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!

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

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