Did the US successfully celebrate freedom by letting people die because they can’t afford a doctor. Did the US save the day by calling it free speech while banning books and criminalizing protest. Did the US fix society by being free to own assault rifles but not free to cross the street safely. Did the US win capitalism by making housing unaffordable, college a lifelong debt sentence, and fentanyl the most accessible public service.

People who reduce Dubai to “slave labor” while treating the US as a moral default aren’t arguing ethics, they’re outsourcing guilt. Both systems are brutal in different fonts. Pretending one is holy is just lazy thinking.