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Old 01-05-2010, 03:57 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dlish View Post

taking advantage of poorer paid people is not illegal here and i dont see that changing anytime soon. but who's going to set a minimum wage when you can build your country on the back of cheap labour?
In that respect, what Dubai is doing is little different from what Canada and the US did in building their railroads with very low paid Chinese labourers - so in some ways it's a little unkind for us to throw stones.

One the other hand, we do live in what we like to think is a more enlightened age and so, IMO, we should - globally - be making more of an effort to treat all workers to a certain standard, at least when they are working in first world countries like Dubai.
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