Originally Posted by Old_Toot
Originally Posted by HoosierHawk
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.


Gee. Sounds a lot like the USA, sorta, don’t it ?

Of course we don’t have special elites in America’s society or those with special privileges or those that can break the laws with total immunity or those who work others for pittance of pay or those who are simply born to “the right families “ or......

Nahh. We’re above all that here.


No, it doesn't. We have labor laws and fought a fairly large war to end slavery about 160 years ago.

I don't see too many people here defending the Kennedys, Rockefellers, or most professional politicians, like you did in regards to Saeed.