It's completely different from North America; your hand-wavy equivocation is completely unwarranted. There aren't vast legions of workers brought into the US under false pretenses, who then have their passports confiscated and are forced to work for several years in excruciating conditions just to "earn" their freedom, simply to build a fake city designed to attract morally blind foreigners.
There are vast legions of workers working in conditions which are neither free nor pleasant to produce consumer goods for North American (and European) markets. They just happen to be conveniently overseas, conveniently one remove away from the multinational brands who contribute to the problem in their quest for ever-cheaper suppliers.
That's true; the vast legions of workers brought into the US under false pretenses, who then have their passports confiscated and are forced to work for several years in excruciating conditions just to "earn" their freedom, are there for other reasons entirely. I recommend reading this article series, "Diary of a Sex Slave":
Also, slavery is an economic institution, and so the benefits flow not only to the slaveholder but also his customers, and they can be exported internationally to customers like you; the costs are borne by the slaves.
Is economic slavery OK if you aren't making people do it? Every first world country relies on people basically working as slaves in some sense or another to function. People feel entitled to a decent well paying job, and don't want do "lower caste" jobs like cleaning.
I did a short stint in Abu Dhabi and it is presented to expats as a wonderful place and is so if you want it to be. Having known someone who worked for Al Jazeera and heard the stories that get supressed involving workers conditions it wiped the sheen right off.
