Yes, I am surprised by the claims that we're expendable and/or slave labour. Anywhere you work you're expendable - just ask the 108 pilots that are about to be let loose from My Travel in the UK!!!!!!
As for slave labour, that's just downright bollocks and very over-dramatised
Slave labour is bus loads of building labourers who live 15 to a room and share a bucket to sh1t in....
And why do some describe Dubai as "artificial"? What do you mean? Surely any city is artificial in that it's not natural desert, jungle,tundra or rolling fields..... Or maybe you think that it's generally too clean or neat or getting greener. Shame on you. I always like coming back here after the filth of the far east, or africa and for that matter most of northern europe.