Burj Dubai Tower

Burj Dubai Tower was officially opened yesterday, six years since the start of construction of development worth U.S. $ 4.1 billion (Rp38, 5 billion) and it plays almost sekilometer.

Designed as a memorial symbol of the economic ambitions of the countries in the Arab city, the Burj Dubai is a modern version of the Tower of Babel (as written in the Bible).

Dubai has just diganyang so that the debt crisis of the world's tallest building was almost empty without occupants, and do not want international tenants to whom the building was built and dedicated.

Basic argument of the monument-building was never fully monumem economic motive.

In the early 20th century in New York, the conglomerates competing to build world's tallest building, to create a region of Manhattan skyscrapers are iconic.

Both General Motors and Chrysler at that time was able to build memaklumatkan testament to their economic power to build high towers.

Then, the gods of hubris sailing to the Far East, when the Petronas Towers in Malaysia and then recently in Taiwan Taipei 101 race to be the highest in the world. Now the half-dozen skyscrapers in Asia make the Sears Tower in Chicago (now Tower Willis) is not nothing.

Like the city itself, Dubai, Burj Dubai is only a new trinkets from poaching efforts for lack borders, including the largest man-made island in the world, shopping centers and the largest indoor ski resort in the world.

Dubai even established himself as the owner of the biggest gold ring in the world, which weighed approximately 60 kg.

Economic theory behind this is, a super land gives a comparative advantage to one true place is not so lovely, and shortages of human resources, although we are asked who proposed to impose a heavy gold ring was.

If centuries ago and taught us about something, then there will be another building built higher out there, and Dubai can not hope to maintain his reputation.

Different from that, in cities like Houston and Hong Kong, buildings, skyscrapers are not the cause of economic prosperity that the cities, but instead became a manifestation of the manifest of that prosperity.

Prosperity is built for years on the old foundations; economic freedom, rule of law, hard work and proper management.

Without any basis for it, the nations and cities were built without a foundation of nothing, except the sand alone. (AntaraNews)