How the other half live.

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The other evening I watched a progamme about Billionaires of Dubai. The opulence is something probably the majority of us will never see however it gave a good insight into their little world. While we think in pounds and pennies they talk of hundreds of thousands and millions. It seems a lot of people bought properties there 20 years ago for around £3-400,000 which today are worth £6-7 million pounds. Some of the houses they bought in the palm island have never ever been occupied and there are lots of houses and apartments lying empty knocking up the value on a daily basis. Quite a few people were ordinary people who were worked hard and were high flyers. There are financial incentives awarded to hard workers and go getters. All the while poorly paid Asian workers who were living in atrocious conditions and with some questionable safety on the building sites where they had to work and were not able to return to their own countries because they had to pay for their own travel and board. Conditions have improved for these workers after the big conglomerates were put to shame. In ten years time the oil reserves will have run out so what are the Emirates doing. They are creating their very own theme parks many of which are already up and running. There are luxury hotels, luxury shopping malls. There global airlines offer a superior service to these states with the likes of Emirates airlines, Etihad and Qatar airways as their main airlines. The service on board is far superior to British Airways and the American intercontinental airlines. They are on par with the likes of Singapore airlines and probably even better! They have built the Burj Khalifa the worlds tallest building which is approximately 828 m (2,717 ft) ,half a mile high, two and a half times the height of the Empire State building, containing apartments, hotels offices and swimming pools, gyms viewing platforms and restaurants. It is so tall it is sometimes above the clouds looking over the city far below! It was quite an insight looking into the lives of these billionaires who own amongst other things their own yachts, planes, racing cars, paying obscene amounts for personalised number plates $2 million dollars! The photo is of the Burj Khalifa from Pixabay