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> Every airport is struggling for the most part

*In the West.

Come to Dubai, Doha, Riyadh or any of the eastern airports and you won't find any problems. Probably your are going to find even better service.

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Ah yes, airports which operate on the backs of modern day slave labour, I can guess why they don't have a problem.

So, airports are staffed by slaves?

Dubai isn't a good place to be championing; they rely on slave labor [0] to keep their economy moving, and that has effects all the way up the chain.

[0] https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...

If we are going to talk about slaves, Then that also includes America which has slave labor from prisons, where people work an entire month for less than a dollar.

And of course that's without talking about countries America destroyed and stole their Natural resources like Iraq.

I don't typically engage with people who don't address the argument at hand and instead engage in diversionary tactics. What I addressed was your holding up a slave/petro/religious state as an example of anything good (I can't think of any major lessons they can give to anyone on anything to do with civil rights or labor practices).

In this case, I abhor the US stance on prison labor enough that I feel compelled to agree with you. It does not excuse any of the slavery in the Middle East, but the US does have its own issues. As a clarification, the lowest wage I could find was $0.13/hr, so not a month for a dollar, but not functionally different ($1/day or so).

As for the Middle East wars... yeah. Not a fan of those.

> Dubai

A grand total of 6 lines for all departing flights?

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