I've just received an email from Emirates telling me that as a Blue member (lowest of the low) I can now purchase access to the Business lounge at Dubai when flying Emirates or Qantas. At USD100 it's not cheap, but given their lounges are often not the haven of tranquility they claim I would have thought any increase in the number of users would be detriment of the offering.
We can get better, because we're not dead yet