This is the most obscene thing you'll see today.
Flashback to 2014, when I was released from prison in the UAE and taken to the airport for expulsion. After passport control, I remember walking past showcases with luxury watches, with the price tags prominently displayed. $10k, $12k, $20k.
I had just been released from a prison full of people who were there mainly because they were poor. One of them failed to pay a fine of 200 dhs ($54). Another has been in prison for weeks because he owed 3000 dhs ($816).
Walking past those showcases made me feel both angry and disgusted, and these $17 million shoes are bringing those feelings back. Not very far from Dubai, a country of 25 million people is being bombed and starved to death by a coalition of which the UAE is a prominent member.
Excessive reckless wealth next to abject unjust poverty is an incendiary mix; it's just waiting for a spark to explode.
