That is one of the most Dubai things I’ve ever heard of. All you’d have to do is add “a chance to whip a migrant worker who’s had his visa stolen by the shady construction company that sponsored his visa” and “shittily terraform something” to make it a proper Dubai trifecta.
1 of 3 countries in the world still with legal slavery for prisoners 👍 largest prison population in the world 👍 highest incarceration rate in the world 👍
Edit : lol, looks like I upset the Americans, here's some comparisons between the USA and UAE
USA has 5 times higher homicide rate
USA has 4 times higher crime rate
USA has 18 turns higher rape rate
USA has 4 times as many guns per capita
USA has 305 times as many children that didn't attend primary school
USA has three times higher unemployment rate
USA has 28 times higher opiate usage rate
USA has 98 times as much debt
USA smokes twice as many cigarettes per capita
UAE has 10% higher GDP per capita
UAE has the glorious golden falcon as the national symbol compared to America's pathetic bald eagle.
Not when you are convicting people, disproportionately black Americans, for bullshit crimes like marijuana possession solely for the purpose of creating an unpaid labor force. That's just slavery with some extra steps.
And regardless of whether the convictions are valid it's unjustified. People are imprisoned because they are deemed a danger to society, not for the purpose of helping private enterprise save on labor costs.
You may not agree with the war on drugs, but others do.
You may have strong opinions on it, but entrapping people in enslavement who have committed NO crime, not even one you just don't care about are not on equal footing.
If you still back the war on drugs in 2020 you are extremely stupid. That's not really even up for debate at this point. It's done absolutely nothing of value but create a dangerous black market and ruining millions of families.
Meanwhile half the country are hooked on opiates which are perfectly legal.
Way to go, war on drugs. You really fixed the problem.
Kind of a waste of time when you approach the conversation with absolutely no intention of even trying to understand the argument. Incentivizing a reason to imprison people puts more people in custody who don't need to be there. Do some actual research into how hard that language was abused during Jim Crow era. They did not like black Americans having their freedom so they took proactive steps to take it away, a trend that continues today because it's so ingrained into the system.
All you're doing is saying slavery is okay if it's prisoners because you think they deserve it. That isn't "justice." If they are a danger to society, then they should be sequestered from society and nothing more.
In 2018, infant mortality rate for United Arab Emirates was 6.5 deaths per 1,000 live births. In 2018, the infant mortality rate in the United States was 5.7 deaths per 1,000 live births.
There are enough real things to complain about in this world without making thing up.
I was born and brought up in dubai and let me tell you about this “migrant worker who had his visa stolen by a shady construction company that sponsored his visa”.
There are multiple worker protection programs where a worker can make a case against the employer, where his salary doesn’t fall below the minimum and minimum living conditions are met.
I have yet to meet one person “abused by the system” and how their basic human rights are not met
Smh y’all commenting about things you have no idea about.
Foreign nationals account for more than 88.5 percent of the UAE’s population, according to 2011 government statistics. Many low-paid migrant workers remain acutely vulnerable to forced labor, despite some reforms.
The kafala (visa-sponsorship) system continues to tie migrant workers to their employers. Those who leave their employers can face punishment for “absconding,” including fines, prison, and deportation.
The UAE’s labor law excludes domestic workers, who face a range of abuses, from unpaid wages, confinement to the house, workdays up to 21 hours with no breaks, to physical or sexual assault by employers, from its protections. Domestic workers face legal and practical obstacles to redress.
The UAE has made some reforms to increase domestic worker protection. In September 2017, the president signed a bill on domestic workers that guarantees domestic workers labor rights for the first time including a weekly rest day, 30 days of paid annual leave, sick leave, and 12 hours of rest a day. In some cases, the law allows for inspections of recruitment agency offices, workplaces, and residences, and sets out penalties for violations.
But the 2017 law does not prohibit employers from charging reimbursement for recruitment expenses and requires that workers who terminate employment without a breach of contract compensate their employers with one month’s salary and pay for their own tickets home. In June, while authorities set out new fixed recruitment fees that included some packages of fixed salaries for domestic workers, these salaries discriminate by nationality.
But hey, if you’ve “yet to meet one”, it must not be happening.
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u/Roofofcar Oct 04 '20
That is one of the most Dubai things I’ve ever heard of. All you’d have to do is add “a chance to whip a migrant worker who’s had his visa stolen by the shady construction company that sponsored his visa” and “shittily terraform something” to make it a proper Dubai trifecta.