Re:Priced out of home ownership – 'It makes me want to throw...
by kylehotchkiss on Monday May 27, 2024 @03:31PM
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The land under UAE doesn’t have dozens or even hundreds of years of plot splitting and ownership claims too, there is just an enormous advantage to how new much of the county is and a government incentivized to grow. It does help that citizens form a smaller part of the population and that it seems like they get advantageous jobs and housing to keep them happy. Hard to compare to western counties.
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Re:Priced out of home ownership – 'It makes me want to throw...
by nasmorn on Monday May 27, 2024 @04:44PM
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Also they build with what is almost slave labor.
Re:Priced out of home ownership – 'It makes me want to throw...
by kylehotchkiss on Monday May 27, 2024 @06:43PM
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Blame the nearby countries providing no jobs, no education, and no future for these laborers instead. Also don’t forget the hundreds of thousands of people from the exact same countries who gain respectable middle class, stable jobs in UAE that their home countries don’t provide. I’m not here to defend every decision that UAE has made but they’ve done a lot of good for people who come from countries with unspeakably shitty governments that deserve a lot more condemnation.
Re:Priced out of home ownership – 'It makes me want to throw...
by nasmorn on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @09:47AM
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In the Roman Empire if you found a child that would otherwise die you could adopt it into your household as a slave since that was certainly better. Your logic is absolutely sound if you dispute the concept of human rights entirely.
The problem is you create a permanent underclass in the country since you take literally almost all rights from them. Including by the way the right to return where they came from.
Re:Priced out of home ownership – 'It makes me want to throw...
by mtalantikite on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @10:18AM
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You don't just get to do human rights abuse because someone was born into poverty or conflict. [1][2][3]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatment_of_South_Asian_labou...
Re:Priced out of home ownership – 'It makes me want to throw...
by illegalmemory on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @05:15PM
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What you are saying is that slavery is not bad because they get to eat now.