Singapore - WOW!

[Siz]

Actually, ever since I was a teenager I've experienced nuclear or radioactive dreams (maybe as a result of reading 'Z for Zacharia' and 'When the wind blows' in quick succession at school). They often feature me watching a large nuclear explosion in the distance, or swimming in pools of radioactive coolant with maintenance robots. It's always a very arousing (not sexually) and positive experience - even though I fully understand that death is not far off. Analyse that!

My analysis is that you read a lot of comic books

Well, consumption of top-shelf publications doesn't seem to manifest in the same way...

[xSilverPhinx]

Dubai is far from cool - in any sense. So vulgar in its expression of wealth at the expense of the tens of thousands of workers kept in poverty that helped build it. Yeugh!

I get your point, but just considering the visual:



If that had been made by people with a better quality of life and paying jobs, would it make it cool or less vulgur?

Dubai in all is just very weird, it's in the middle of a desert (I don't think it has petrol). I don't know where they're getting all their wealth from. But you're right about the poverty, I've only ever spent a day there but it shows when you're on the ground...

[Ecurb Noselrub]

Dubai is far from cool - in any sense. So vulgar in its expression of wealth at the expense of the tens of thousands of workers kept in poverty that helped build it. Yeugh!

I get your point, but just considering the visual:



If that had been made by people with a better quality of life and paying jobs, would it make it cool or less vulgur?

Dubai in all is just very weird, it's in the middle of a desert (I don't think it has petrol). I don't know where they're getting all their wealth from. But you're right about the poverty, I've only ever spent a day there but it shows when you're on the ground...

I think it's cool. I actually admire them for doing something with their city that prepares for when they don't have oil anymore.

[Crow]

Dubai in all is just very weird, it's in the middle of a desert (I don't think it has petrol). I don't know where they're getting all their wealth from. But you're right about the poverty, I've only ever spent a day there but it shows when you're on the ground...

Its technically cool and interesting that it can be seen from space but it has no purpose, its the same with Masdar city in Abu Dhabi, why not put that technology into the infrastructure of the capitals but at least that it is trying to achieve something. True luxury is not the billion dollar building its the small things done well. You see the tall buildings and the ostentatious displays but if its only money they are concerned with they are missing the entire point of what truly makes a city great. If all they have to export is a show of wealth it certainly doesn't look good for the city, especially when the reason they have wealth is because of the shady activities that happened (maybe still do) which attracted the rich and helped it become the trade center for Abu Dhabis oil.

[Tank]

Dubai is far from cool - in any sense. So vulgar in its expression of wealth at the expense of the tens of thousands of workers kept in poverty that helped build it. Yeugh!

I get your point, but just considering the visual:



If that had been made by people with a better quality of life and paying jobs, would it make it cool or less vulgur?

Dubai in all is just very weird, it's in the middle of a desert (I don't think it has petrol). I don't know where they're getting all their wealth from. But you're right about the poverty, I've only ever spent a day there but it shows when you're on the ground...

I think it's cool. I actually admire them for doing something with their city that prepares for when they don't have oil anymore.

True. However they seem to be unaware of global warming and raising sea levels.

[Tank]

Dubai has a project to create the world in islands.

[DeterminedJuliet]

Yes b'y!

[xSilverPhinx]

Dubai in all is just very weird, it's in the middle of a desert (I don't think it has petrol). I don't know where they're getting all their wealth from. But you're right about the poverty, I've only ever spent a day there but it shows when you're on the ground...

Its technically cool and interesting that it can be seen from space but it has no purpose, its the same with Masdar city in Abu Dhabi, why not put that technology into the infrastructure of the capitals but at least that it is trying to achieve something. True luxury is not the billion dollar building its the small things done well. You see the tall buildings and the ostentatious displays but if its only money they are concerned with they are missing the entire point of what truly makes a city great. If all they have to export is a show of wealth it certainly doesn't look good for the city, especially when the reason they have wealth is because of the shady activities that happened (maybe still do) which attracted the rich and helped it become the trade center for Abu Dhabis oil.

I really don't know what they're doing there exactly, but I wouldn't say that things like that serve no purpose but since Dubai practically lives off its investores and spends relatively little with its (almost) slave labour, could be one heck of a calling card. But like most if not all developing areas, distribution of wealth isn't a high priority.