Re:The first Arab mission to Mars is delivering some interes...
by BenoitP on Monday October 11, 2021 @02:44PM
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UAE is best understood as an international haven (tax, airline passenger routing, container transboarding) operated by expats (the fearful rich from authoritarian countries, westerners administrating an EMEA operation, workers from India), and controlled by Emiratis (100% of police, judiciary, government decision-taking)
So, it makes no sense engaging the volatile expat population in this project, and they just don't have the critical human resources to do it within their population.
They do like vanity projects, though.
See also: Burj Khalifa, Palm Jumeirah, Mall with a ski slope, Mall with a whale aquarium, etc
Source: did an internship in this quite weird place
They represent only 20% of the population in their own country (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriates_in_the_United_Ar....)
So, it makes no sense engaging the volatile expat population in this project, and they just don't have the critical human resources to do it within their population.
They do like vanity projects, though.
See also: Burj Khalifa, Palm Jumeirah, Mall with a ski slope, Mall with a whale aquarium, etc
Source: did an internship in this quite weird place