[majewsky]

> Dubai and Qatar, some of the most economically successful countries in their region, are essentially entirely built on slave labor.

Exactly. These massive oil reserves have nothing to do with it. /s

[wfo]

Exactly, you've clearly stated my original point -- economic success in countries has nothing to do with the morality of their society or culture or government. Economic success is more often than not luck of the draw and can happen to brutal slave dictatorships as much as free market democracies.