[nysuperdoodle]

yep.... from the article -

She is not alone. All over the city, there are maxed-out expats sleeping secretly in the sand-dunes or the airport or in their cars.

“The thing you have to understand about Dubai is – nothing is what it seems,” Karen says at last. “Nothing. This isn’t a city, it’s a con-job. They lure you in telling you it’s one thing – a modern kind of place – but beneath the surface it’s a medieval dictatorship.”

[pabianice]

[GeronL]

How did so many people fall for it? A new Hong Kong in the middle east? In a Muslim country?

it wasn’t going to happen

[Publius6961]

“The thing you have to understand about Dubai is – nothing is what it seems,” Karen says at last. “Nothing. This isn’t a city, it’s a con-job. They lure you in telling you it’s one thing – a modern kind of place – but beneath the surface it’s a medieval dictatorship.”

That has never been a secret for those wishing to really know.
I have no sympathy for stupidity.

Greed, next to stupidity, is the driving force for all these "victims."