The wealthy in the UAE also benefit from a foreign worker system that could be called indentured servitude at best, but is essentially slavery.
Do a little research on "UAE Kafala" to see what being a wealthy citizen of UAE is really about. It has nothing to do with them "making something of themselves" and everything to do with being fortunate enough to be descended from landowners that benefitted from French and British exploration for oil on lands they owned.
Saeed, like most of his other countrymen, did nothing to earn his wealth. He's simply related to the right people.
