• als@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      That first photo is a very famous one of the Paraisópolis favela and the Morumbi district in São Paulo. (Source)
      The second photo is of the Naya Nagar neighbourhood in Mumbai’s Dharavi area. (Source)
      The third one is, however, actually what you purport it to be. (Source)

      I imagine you’re not trying to deceive people and I agree with the points you’re trying to make but please make sure that you check your sources before spreading info

      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Fuck, now i feel bad. Really Cant trust the internet these days.

        I changed it up and included the one picture i could find that appears authentic but because that picture of mumbai was actually labeled dubai i really dont know anymore.

        Thanks for pointing it out.

        I also found this one but its the same source as the mislabelled mumbai picture so i cant trust it.

  • josefo@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Slavery as in actual people owning others as property or more like slave wages? I always thought it was just oil.

    • pneumatron@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      They bring in workers from Nepal and Bangladesh etc, and take their passports and then stuff 30-40 into a little apartment with no ac. They charge them thousands for the privilege to come work in Dubai and they have to live there until they pay off their debt

    • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Yes it would. Dubai is a small coastal emirate. Afghanistan is a large landlocked country in one of the highest mountainous regions of the world.

      Afghanistans largest ethnic groups are Iranian ethnicities (Persian) and the historical and cultural background are very different from the Emiratis who are Arabs.

      What you said would be like saying “Italy without Pasta would just be like Denmark.”

        • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Don’t underestimate the soft al-dente-power Italian pasta projects across the globe.

          As for oil and Dubai: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Dubai

          Oil production, which once accounted for 50% of Dubai’s gross domestic product, contributes less than 1% today.[4] In 2018, wholesale and retail trade represented 26% of the total GDP; transport and logistics, 12%; banking, insurance activities and capital markets, 10%; manufacturing, 9%; real estate, 7%; construction, 6%; tourism, 5%.

    • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I think it would be less flashy than today but actually a minor success. It was already on the rise before oil.
      And it’s perfectly positioned for flying between Africa, Europe and Asia. There’s a good reason so many major airlines are from the Gulf.

    • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
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      3 months ago

      It is no secret that a large proportion of the wealth accumulated by Dubai merchants comes from smuggling gold bullion (mostly from Britain), Swiss watches and Japanese cloth into Pakistan and…

      https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/1970/06/06/golden-dubai

      Gold flown from London’s bullion houses like Johnson Matthey and Samuel Montagu to the The British Bank of the Middle East and the First national Bank in Dubai played a significant part in making Dubai what it is today. Shipped out by Arabs, Pakistanis and Indians in dhows to Bombay and other ports like Kutch and Calicut in western India, it brought much wealth to the merchants and the larger business community of expatriates who had made Dubai, home. The narrative of oil in the Persian Gulf has largely overshadowed that of gold and underplayed its significance in linking Dubai to the international economy.

      https://mei.nus.edu.sg/think_in/gold-smuggling-between-dubai-and-bombay/