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when we hear the word dubai most of us
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picture towering skyscrapers immense
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wealth
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police with lamborghinis seven star
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hotels with the absolute cream of
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society inside them
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also the palm islands the world islands
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the burj khalifa the
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arab futuristic symbols of incredible
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wealth and so in light of all that i'm
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here to make the case that dubai the
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emirates
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and the gulf countries in general are
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one of the worst places on the planet
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now this is a rather bold claim i
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realize but it's one that i can
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substantiate
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fully so let's take a look at what's
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really behind the glitz and glamour
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the true face of dubai and the gulf
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countries to better understand what's
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going on in a place like dubai
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first let's talk about romania
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in the decades following world war ii
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bukash the capital came to face the same
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problem as many eastern european
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capitals did at the time as urbanization
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increased and huge residential areas
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were built out
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the need arose for new high-capacity
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public transportation
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and so nikola chochasku the dictator
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romania back in the day gave out the
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order to construct a metro line
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and so the engineers created a line
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proposal and presented it to him
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and then choshasku was like no i will
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design
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the route personally and so the former
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shoemaker assistant who also called
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himself the genius of the carpathians i
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am not making this up
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sat down and redesigned the entire metro
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line to have it run along the river
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underneath yes along but nikola
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chochesko's wife elena ciao a former
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textile factory worker
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also got her fair share of planning
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reportedly when the planners presented
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the final version of the metro line to
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the chochesko couple elena chochesko
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reportedly asked why the metro would
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stop inside the inner city at piata
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romana inquiring what kind of factories
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there are the planners told her there
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aren't any factories but there is the
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bukharash university of economics where
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there are lots of students
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hearing that elena choutesque reportedly
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said students
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they've gotten fat they grew up belly
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they should walk
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no station at romana let them walk and
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so since nikola chorchesku added nothing
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to that and nobody else dared to oppose
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his wife
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the station was x from the plans but of
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course everyone outside of the dictator
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power couple
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knew that this was stupid and so
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the engineers having enough foresight
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decided to build the station
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in secret banking on the fact that they
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would need to build a station there
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anyway
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due to future public pressure and they
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were correct the end result was this
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ridiculous and dangerously narrow
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station
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since the engineers couldn't build a
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normal station hall since they had to
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disguise their little secret project as
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regular tunnel boring
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and so the moral of the story is smooth
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brain dictator plus construction
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equals dumb and boy what a perfect
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segue this is to the video's actual
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subject
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dubai
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[Music]
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the city of dubai is a joke it's
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a tasteless parody of
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everything wrong with modern humanity
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and so why do i say that
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let's go through it shall we
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now in my video about skyscrapers i have
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already talked about the butch khalifa
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it's a
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big dumb tower of glass and steel stuck
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in the middle of the desert
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serving no other purpose than a
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petrodollar fuel dick measuring contest
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and the building even has its own poem
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about itself
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like seriously how pretentious can you
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get i am the life force of collective
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aspirations and the aesthetic union of
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many cultures i seriously dream stupid
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emotions
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what the hell is that noise oh no it's
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the poop trucks
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yeah did you know that the burj khalifa
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isn't connected to its sewage system
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so every single day a huge line of poop
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trucks have to queue up next to the
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building and
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suck out all the poop so amar's ambition
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and dubai's shining dream included the
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world's
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tallest skyscraper but not a sewer
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system and besides i've talked about
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this before in the skyscrapers video
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there's actually not much point to
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building a skyscraper
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like the only situation where it might
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make sense is when you're physically out
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of space
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but trust me dubai does not have this
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problem which ties into the next
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suspects
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dubai's palm islands are the og symbols
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of the city the construction of the
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first one the palm jumeirah started in
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2001 if you can believe that
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and according to google's satellite
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images it's still not finished
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it's still getting built out and just
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for good measure let's take a look at
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what they actually built here i mean
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these things do look nice from space but
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what
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are they really from up close and
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personal well the stem is an
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8 lane urban freeway and the leaves are
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just individual suburban streets
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oh and there's also a monorail in the
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middle oh and between
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the point and nakil mall there are no
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stations
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so then how do people living on the
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leaves get on this thing
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well it's a rhetorical question of
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course just like the real suburbs in
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america
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this thing was built around cars and the
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second poem the jebel alley will be more
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the same
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and then there are the world islands of
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course which are just a complex of tiny
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islands for the ultra rich and their
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villas
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and oh my god this looks outright
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post-apocalyptic jesus christ
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oh and there's a third bomb under
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construction if the two weren't enough
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oh and by the way the sand they use for
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the palms is not desert sand they can't
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use it because the grains are too big
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instead they have to get the sand from
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the sea floor and they achieved this by
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sucking it up with these big tanker
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and also annihilating acres of marine
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life in a process
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oh and by the way these palm islands
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were built on top of natural coral reefs
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which they just ended up basically
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burying
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oh and according to nasa measurements
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all these islands are sinking at a rate
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of five millimeters per year and by the
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way have you heard about this thing
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called the rising sea levels
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according to the environment agency abu
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dhabi under the most severe climate
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change scenario nearly all of dubai
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including the palm islands would be
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under water alright so let me get this
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straight you had all the money and power
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in the world to create
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anything and you have paid money to
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annihilate a coral reef to build a
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sinking suburb on top of it
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perhaps i treated you too harshly and
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here's the kicker about these islands
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that's right i'm still not done why
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build them on the sea to begin with i
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mean you have the desert you have all
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the space you will ever need
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so why not just build the palms inverted
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into the land you know having the actual
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body of the palm not
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out of sand but out of water it would
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look just as impressive from space and
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it wouldn't even demolish all the
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aquatic life
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hang on a second they did do something
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like this already just below the palm
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tree
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and oh no these are american style
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suburbs oh man i can't believe it they
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took the worst urbanism practices from
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the us
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and they implemented it one to one and
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we actually have all the circles of
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urbanism hell in here
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copy-based housing cul-de-sacs giant
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highways coming through the area no
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public transportation a 12 lane arterial
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road jesus
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christ and so this will be our segway to
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dubai's urbanism in general is just
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complete bonkers
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it's kind of its own little bubble
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really a strange little rich people's
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dystopia in the desert
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take a look at this arrangement two
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sections of skyscrapers separated by a
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20-something lane freeway and behind it
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a bunch of cul-de-sac suburbs and golf
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courses
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is this strange mixture between futurama
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and evil los angeles
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and this just makes me feel so
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frustrated because all that money and
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all that power they could have done so
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much more and so much better than this
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the way i understand it the main motive
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behind building all this flashy stuff
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was to try and increase tourism to help
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the emirates economy transition away
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from oil revenues
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which is you know fair enough but then
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why not build something truly unique
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something that isn't just a big dumb
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tower of glass and steel or a couple
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dozen suburban streets on sinking
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sandbanks
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or gigantic malls or golf courses
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imagine a city with full-on historic
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arabic golden eater architecture with
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modern elements
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ok this is concept art from diablo 3 but
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you get the idea i have seen skyscrapers
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malls suburbs urban freeways or golf
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courses before what i haven't seen is a
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historical or at least historicist arab
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city
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that would be a great way of spending
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all those petrol dollars or at least a
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better way i would say and that might
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even attract a more quality crowd
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instead of the oligarchs trust fund
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babies and noverish idiots
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okay that's a bit unfair but dubai right
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now is not exactly a haven of
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intellectualism so to speak by the way
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did you know that only 10 percent of the
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emirates population is actually emirati
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the other 90 being immigrants and expats
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well actually they are all immigrants
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it's just that white people came up with
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this word expat so they don't have to
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call themselves immigrants abroad
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because that word is reserved for brown
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people
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speaking of which
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and this right here is my biggest
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problem with dubai the emirates and the
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gulf states in general
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all that luxury wealth and opulence you
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see all around you in dubai
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rests on a mountain of human tragedies
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poor people from third world countries
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such as india pakistan and bangladesh
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are lured in by work agencies promising
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high wages and stable employment
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people take loans from friends and
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family so they can cover the cost of
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their travel and work visa usually more
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than 2 000
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despite emirati law requiring the
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companies to pay for those upon arrival
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workers passports are often confiscated
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essentially trapping them inside the
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country workers are forced to work up to
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12 hour shifts up to 7 days a week
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for 175 dollars per month on average
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wager years are common many workers not
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receiving money for months on end to
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quote from a human rights watch report
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the impact on workers whose wages are
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withheld for even one month is very
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serious
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they immediately fall into arrears on
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the death day of recruiting agencies in
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their home countries
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they incur additional interest and they
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are unable to send money home for their
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families who depend on their income
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earning the emirates in some cases the
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non-payment of wages means that workers
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do not have money to buy food or basic
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goods and end up borrowing money just to
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survive
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the coveted epidemic only made things
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worse that and the oil price crashing
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left many workers jobless
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consequently many were abandoned by
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their former employers they now spend
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their days in half abandoned worker
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camps on the outskirts of the city only
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volunteers and their food donations
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standing between them and starvation
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a guardian article quotes a construction
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worker called hassan he says
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guests on and off visit and give
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something but when nobody comes we have
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to starve
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we have nothing all this just a few
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kilometers away from the seven star
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hotels
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the world's tallest skyscraper the
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world's biggest mall and the golf
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courses for rich foreigners
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according to the estimates of the
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commonwealth human rights initiative
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between 2012 and mid-2018
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more than 10 indian workers died in gulf
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countries every
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single day and these are just the
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indians
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in addition to that a jezebel article
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goes on to say that at least two indians
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commit suicide every single week
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in the emirates a number they say that
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is simultaneously built shocking
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yet unsurprising they show photos of the
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accommodation the workers have to endure
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unfit even for animals a harsh contrast
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to instagram's parallel universe
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they call this system modern slavery and
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i'm afraid they are correct
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this and the previously mentioned issues
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but especially this
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is why i hate the emirates and
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especially hate dubai
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the city of dubai is a joke one
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that's unusually cruel it's a
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twisted parody of everything wrong with
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modern humanity i'll leave you with a
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poem from bertolt brecht written in 1935
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titled questions from a worker who reads
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who built thieves of the seven gates in
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the books you will read the names of
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kings
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did the kings haul up the lumps of rock
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and babylon
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many times demolished who raised it up
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so many times
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in what houses of gold glittering lima
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did its builders live where
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the evening that the great wall of china
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was finished did the masons go
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great room is full of triumphal arches
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who erected them
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over whom did the caesar's triumph had
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byzantium much raised in song
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only palaces for its inhabitants even in
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fabled atlantis
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the night that the ocean engulfed it the
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drowning still cried out for their
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slaves
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the young alexander conquered india was
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he alone
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caesar defeated the gauls did he not
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even have a cook with him
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philip of spain wept when his armada
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went down
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was he the only one to weep frederick
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the second won the seven years war
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who else won it every page of victory
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who cooked the feast for the victors
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every ten years a great man who paid the
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bill
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so many reports so many questions
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thank you for watching i'm sorry the
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video took such a dark journey in the
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end but as i was looking up stuff for
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dubai for the video i kept encountering
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more and more just
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alarming the up information like
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jesus christ
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anyway thank you for watching once again
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and please like and subscribe if you
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haven't already and do check out my
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patreon tiers link in the description
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and i'll see you next time
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