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By Gundhramns Hammer
February 2, 2014
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The prosperity of one person is too often based upon the despair and misery of another.
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The prosperity of one person is too often based upon the despair and misery of another.
No empire is ever built without human sweat and bloodshed. It is a fact. Human nature is therapsid nature.
Empires are also graveyards of broken or lost promises and broken families, and hotbeds for intrigues and corruption.
"Show me an empire and I will show you a man at his highest peak and at the same time at his lowest ebb and darkest spot", used to tell us our private history teacher.
For man is like the Moon, with a bright and a dark side. And it is up to each human being which side to nurture and cultivate.
If the bright and good, he or she will spread light and goodness around him or her.
If the dark and bad, he or she will suffer from the sickness of greed, prey upon the weak and poor and disseminate hunger, fear, terror and destruction, despite the fact that sometimes this darkness might be cleverly disguised under the skin of goodness, kindness and prosperity. This glitter serves to trap the fool or lackadaisical.
Thus, in a modern world where resources are so unequally distributed in human societies, fools and dispaired people abound and like flies they fall in the trap. These are the masses used to construct modern economic empires.
As a result, too many people fall under the weight of the steel and hammer when working like slaves for giant greedy enterprises to build the empires of the XXI century.
This is the case in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where thousands of poor people from Pakistan, India and other Asiatic nations have fallen into debt to get an airplane ticket to come to the desert searching for better life prospects.
And instead of finding gold, they end up grinding sand with their teeth.
The secret of the desert sands
The construction boom in the Arabic Peninsula´s nations has turned the few rich, richer; quite a few have managed to reach the coveted middle class level; and lots of migrant workers have eaten shit.
Under the glitter of the skyscrapers, giant mansions and palaces, manicured golf camps, fancy musea, luxurious shopping malls and expensive cars running up and down wide avenues, all squandering precious natural resources, hides a sea of exploited migrant workers with broken hopes and hearts. This is the secret of the desert sands.
These people are the ones who have eaten Scheiße chasing "a dream that just stayed a dream".
This is their story.
Here is what others have to say on the issue of the exploitation of migrant workers in the UAE:
Empires are also graveyards of broken or lost promises and broken families, and hotbeds for intrigues and corruption.
"Show me an empire and I will show you a man at his highest peak and at the same time at his lowest ebb and darkest spot", used to tell us our private history teacher.
For man is like the Moon, with a bright and a dark side. And it is up to each human being which side to nurture and cultivate.
If the bright and good, he or she will spread light and goodness around him or her.
If the dark and bad, he or she will suffer from the sickness of greed, prey upon the weak and poor and disseminate hunger, fear, terror and destruction, despite the fact that sometimes this darkness might be cleverly disguised under the skin of goodness, kindness and prosperity. This glitter serves to trap the fool or lackadaisical.
Thus, in a modern world where resources are so unequally distributed in human societies, fools and dispaired people abound and like flies they fall in the trap. These are the masses used to construct modern economic empires.
As a result, too many people fall under the weight of the steel and hammer when working like slaves for giant greedy enterprises to build the empires of the XXI century.
This is the case in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where thousands of poor people from Pakistan, India and other Asiatic nations have fallen into debt to get an airplane ticket to come to the desert searching for better life prospects.
And instead of finding gold, they end up grinding sand with their teeth.
The secret of the desert sands
The construction boom in the Arabic Peninsula´s nations has turned the few rich, richer; quite a few have managed to reach the coveted middle class level; and lots of migrant workers have eaten shit.
Under the glitter of the skyscrapers, giant mansions and palaces, manicured golf camps, fancy musea, luxurious shopping malls and expensive cars running up and down wide avenues, all squandering precious natural resources, hides a sea of exploited migrant workers with broken hopes and hearts. This is the secret of the desert sands.
These people are the ones who have eaten Scheiße chasing "a dream that just stayed a dream".
This is their story.
Here is what others have to say on the issue of the exploitation of migrant workers in the UAE:
"The
United Arab Emirates is a federation of seven semi-autonomous emirates, some of
which are cosmopolitan metropolises replete with spectacular skylines of steel
and glass towers, man-made marinas and artificial islands. These showpieces
have become iconic of the UAE and, in particular, of Dubai´s
construction boom and its lucrative tourist and real-estate industries. But
they veil a harsh and disturbing reality afflicting the country´s migrant
labourers, an underclass of immigrants who toil to create a paradise in which
they will seldom, if ever, indulge." [Andrew Tock]
Read the full article:
The dark side of the dunes: the plight of migrant labourers in the United Arab Emirates, relative to international standards protecting the rights of migrant workers, by Andrew Tock, University of Warwick. Click HERE.
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The dark side of the dunes: the plight of migrant labourers in the United Arab Emirates, relative to international standards protecting the rights of migrant workers, by Andrew Tock, University of Warwick. Click HERE.
Watch this YouTube video:
