I just listened to this interview with Adrian Smith, the guy who led the team who designed that huge thing in Dubai, and at 6:50 the interviewer asks about the 2500 workers who went on strike because of bad conditions.
His answer is so infuriating. He says “I knew the truth” because he had seen these people picking up things off the streets at their homes to get food to eat, so to come to Dubai and get housing — “okay housing” he says, was a “tremendous advantage” for them. Since they had a “crisis at home” they weren't being exploited in Dubai.
“Did he hear the reports of exploitation?” the interviewer asks.
“Yeah,” he says, “but I knew it wasn't happening.”
BBC interview series called “Witness History.”