>Johann Hari
lol

But yea, Dubai is legitimately a pretty fucked up place. It's like a huge playpark for the megarich and totally insane.

There's a mega-wealthy upper class that happened to luck out because they owned land there before the city was built, and a massive class of laborers from India.

It's the growth tale of every single country I can think of, in one way or another.

Well, minus the "move in and enslave the native population" part.

Abu Dhabi also has a nutjob who wrote his name so that it could be seen from space, if you just can't get enough of crazy vanity projects in the Middle East.

>>Johann Hari
>lol

Why lol?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari#Journalistic_controversy

…Oh. Hmm.

Perhaps the most comical bit of the whole affair was; 'The council also disclosed that Hari had not returned the prize money he received of 2000 pounds.'

Because a weak apology solves it all!

I'm sorry, was anyone who's ever actually been to Dubai under the impression that it was anything but a shithole? It's not "hidden" at all. You can tell the first day off the plane that it's a seedy dictatorship and a fucking horrible place to live.

>>1003
The media likes to focus on the 'playground for the rich' aspect rather than the cloying political fog.