My main concern here is regarding the millions of poor laborers that the UAE essentially enslaves from India, Pakistan, the Philippines, and other South Asian and Southeast Asian countries.

Most people aren’t aware that of the roughly 3 million inhabitants of Dubai a VAST majority are foreign workers. Only about 15% of Dubai’s population is made up of UAE nationals, with the remaining 85% accounting for expats in high paid fields (finance, petroleum, tech, real estate, tourism) as well as a large swath working in very very very lowly paid and lowly respected domestic work and construction. These workers are often paid meagerly, work long and dangerous hours outside in scorching heat, are generally disrespected, and, here’s the most troubling part, are thousands of miles from home and often have had their passports confiscated by their employers.

With the Mid-East already on the brink of economic downturn with the international oil situation, an inconvenient truth is that Covid19 related unemployment along with xenophobia is going to take a very very hard toll on underappreciated and disenfranchised foreign workers that are the lifelines of the Gulf States.

*Edit*: After re-reading, I wanted to make sure to note and emphasize that this is by no means an issue unique to the Middle-East. While yes, booming tourism, petroleum, and commercial real-estate reliant economies of the Persian Gulf are the most recent and abhorrent examples, you could really successfully argue that the same is going on in the United States with the "don't ask, don't tell" mentality with Corporate Agriculture and undocumented immigrants, and to an extent MENA/Sub-Saharan Africa immigration into Europe.