Because Dubai doesn’t exactly publish a “Workplace Fatality Annual Report” like a boring Canadian town. The labor system is different. Many workers are on short-term visas. If someone dies, the body goes home quietly. It’s a hush-hush system.
Plus, what counts as “building it”? Do we include the guy who had a heart attack in the labor camp? The woman who died in a bus crash on the way to the site? Suddenly, the question gets philosophical.
And let’s not forget the media blackout. During construction, journalists were actively discouraged from sniffing around worker safety. The narrative was “mega-project glory,” not “mega-project misery.”
