Dubai seems like the peak of inequality and ostentatious luxury even to those of us who don't live in America (I assume you mean "the US", not the Americas).

There are genuinely bad places in the world even factoring out "American exceptionalism/egocentrism". Dubai seems to be one of them.

I don't think that the author is American. Their X profile [1] seems to indicate that they are British.

[1] https://x.com/caitdoherty

Whose morality counts?

Are there moralities worth entertaining that place no value on human life or its enslavement?