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Am I wrong?! 15,000 workers have died? How is a number like that acceptable? What if the event was Roman and I replaced workers with gladiators? Would the en
by grapescheesee 5y ago
Am I wrong?! 15,000 workers have died?
How is a number like that acceptable?
What if the event was Roman and I replaced workers with gladiators? Would the entertainment be more obviously a weight of blood?
This type of wealth is a form of modern war. Albeit, the other side which follows successful, or non successful war. This is mostly paid for with oil profits.
- djrockstar1 5y ago15,000 construction workers working on the World Cup have not died. 15,021 non-Qataris have died. The number includes any expatriate in Qatar - teachers, managers, fast food servers, VPs - everyone. Even among construction workers, the vast majority are working on projects that have nothing to do with the World Cup. For context, something like 80% of the 2.6m people in Qatar are expatriates, and these deaths occurred over a 9 year period. You can do the math.
- grapescheesee 5y agoThank you for clarifying.
- hluska 5y agoPlease read the Amnesty International report. This subject is way too big and too complex to trust anyone but actual experts.
- hluska 5y ago
- djrockstar1 5y agoI'm literally just a Pakistani dude who's lived in Qatar all his life bored at work with nothing to do. Well, that or I'm a Qatari national working for the Qatari government as a social media agent, but doing programming on the side for some reason, who knows?
- cr1895 5y agoPlease don’t post like this on HN…you’re just assuming bad faith and you’re spamming this comment or a variation repeatedly.