The crown are making big adult playgrounds for rich people so they can divest themselves of the financial road-to-nowhere that is oil. There's no morality in this, their people will still be deeply oppressed and no amount of witticisms will change that.

I don't even really judge Burr too harshly here, but the excuse is paper thin. I'd rather he just not give one and make a joke about how many millions he can't make cussing out hecklers in Tucson.