Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Why Dubai's Man-Made Islands Are Still Empty" video.

  1. Well you don't. And most of the money you want them to send to Africa would have just ended up in the bank accounts of the despots and tyrants who run it. Foreign aid is a failure.
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  2. They grant citizenship based on patrilineal lineage. Living and working your entire life there means nothing.
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  3. Fighting climate change is an even bigger waste of money. LOL @ silly humans trying to go against God and nature.
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  4. No one except Yemenis are starving in the region. And they do have a social safety net.
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  5. That military budget also goes toward protecting the likes of the UAE from Iran. <what's so hard helping the needy....is it dangerous> Learned helplessness.
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  6. The UAE government is the elite. And no, even if we take down the elite, people will still be poor as some will just simply squander what they have.
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  7. Actually they do spend money on their faithful citizens as outsiders are barred from any social assistance from the government.
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  8. The West is not lacking in identity unless you're talking about Canada.
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  9.  @squirrelcovers6340  While Trump-haters live either in the projects or on their moms' couch.
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  10. Barely any wildlife exist in the desert.
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  11. Greed and ego.
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  12. Yet depend on countries that do for their protection
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  13.  @deshawnjackson9077  LMAO
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  14.  @prophetrexlexful8783  No it isn't.
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  15. But the Philippines is poor and much of its economy is dependent on letting its citizens get exploited elsewhere for remittance.
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  16. It's the UAE's trillions and have no obligation to care about half of the world going hungry. That's something you need to take up with the governments of said half of the world.
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  17. But the company in the video is government-run.
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  18. The same electric vehicles dependent on also environmentally destructive lithium?
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  19. Thanks to oil and US military protection.
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  20. Because it wasn't that long ago that the UAE and China were poor. The UAE little more than a fishing village and China yet another communist basket case.
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  21. Namely the UAE government. And since when did they care about what real people want? It's a dictatorship.
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  22. Not really as those expats went to Dubai by choice. And the UAE doesn't owe any non-Emirati citizenship.
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  23. Dubai is not a country but a city in the UAE.
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  24. LOL. Maybe for a day or 2. But once the money and food run out, it's right back to square one.
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  25. Only to cost even more when demand continues growing and supply continues dwindling.
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