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Woke means eyes are open
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Also all the oil money.
Mostly the oil money, I think.
Selling oil is also not woke.
I assure you they are not rich because of oil anymore than they are rich because of pearl.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Dubai
Even if the oil is only 1% of GDP recently it was still 50% of GDP back when they were building all of their ports, airlines, banks, and hotels. They've also proven as recently as 2020 that they can flood the market with so much oil that it dips into negative cosr per barrel in other nations like the USA and Russia.
Kind of fucking weird to say slavery is the source of their success when they have so goddamn much oil money tbh.
Who do you think is working the refineries?
And cleaning the compounds, being nannies, groundskeeping, chauffeuring, tutoring...
ding ding ding!
Well paid professional native Arabs and foreign experts because it's a notoriously dangerous and sabotage prone industry?
You're talking about an industry where you can throw a water bottle into a chemical vat and kill everyone in the building or loosen a valve and set an oil rig on fire lmao.
Slaves under the kafala system are used in domestic duties, construction, and service (or "service") jobs. Not jobs that require significant trust and knowledge.
You need well treated wage slaves that think they're free for those.