if you live too long in the Middle East. How can you compare the UK or even Europe or the USA with this tiny town of Dubai. 380'000 homeless seems a bit high, but even if it is true it has nothing to do with the state sponsored and approved slave labor system that is used in the GCC. And yes I talked to laborers and maids and nobody had anything nice to say about Dubai. Beside the fact that there was a massive inflation, there was never a payraise and it is true that the laborers don't get paid. Daily news report in the Gulftimes about non-payments, disgusting living conditions, bad food, fires in labor camps, people sleeping on the roofs in downtown Doha because the camps are to filthy and hot. Maids getting raped and beaten daily, that is why certain countries do not allow their girls to work in the GCC anymore. Abuse is not the exception but the rule.
The article was quite accurate about that.
One thing I always wondered. Why do these airlines here make no money? Labor is dirt cheap, a cleaner costs 500 Dhs, an engineer maybe 10000, the petrol is dirt cheap, cabin crew is cheap, the pilots get paid less than they would in Europe, administration also cheap Indian labor, no pension funds, bad insurance. Where does all this money go?
