XIIIesq
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XIIIesq@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Chaos in Dubai as UAE records heaviest rainfall in 75 yearsEnglish
1·2 years ago20% of the UK live in poverty.
11% of US citizens live in poverty
You can call them not rich if you want but that doesn’t change the facts that they’d be so much poorer without oil money
XIIIesq@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Chaos in Dubai as UAE records heaviest rainfall in 75 yearsEnglish
0·2 years agoI’m obviously talking about the wealth of the whole country, not just it’s richest citizens.
In 2009, the UAEs GDP was 85% based on oil, it doesn’t take a triple digit IQ to do the maths here.
XIIIesq@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Chaos in Dubai as UAE records heaviest rainfall in 75 yearsEnglish
1·2 years agoIf you were otherwise dirt poor and you had the opportunity to become rich beyond your dreams selling something that to you is essentially free you wouldn’t do it?
It’s really easy to be moral from your armchair at home.
I’m not saying that makes it OK, but it’s a real moral dilemma and we live in the real world. The UAE not selling oil wouldn’t lower the demand for it, they’d still have been flooded, just with no oil money to help fix anything afterwards.
XIIIesq@lemmy.worldto
Nintendo@lemmy.world•Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023’s best-selling game worldwide | VGCEnglish
1·2 years agoDespite J K Rowling being a terf lol
Am I out of touch? No! Everyone is a fucking transphobe!
How are socialism and democracy incompatible concepts?


Every community is an echo chamber except for mine!