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20% 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

I’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.

If 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.