"Why don't you just come to Dubai and see the 'dark side' yourselves rather than pontificating on pprune." I think that most people in this thread have been several/too many times in DXB. Professional pilots visit many places
Somebody asked "how many of you have been motivated to do anything to help the workers in Dubai other than slatch??" What people did here in this thread was denying it/painting a non trivial situation "that happens everywhere".
I can appreciate an answer where I am told that things are fortunately not that bad and the news papers are just highlighting exceptions, etc... Or an answer that something must be done or doom will prevail. Not an answer where DXB is justified with examples of Mexican camps, forced prostitution, or made look non trivial by mentioning the holocoast. That is ridiculous. And in no way a justification.