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> So have I made a mistake, or is this article really about the fact that being a near-slave in Qatar cuts your risk of death by 91%? No, you haven’t made a mi
by rosndo 5y ago
> So have I made a mistake, or is this article really about the fact that being a near-slave in Qatar cuts your risk of death by 91%?
No, you haven’t made a mistake.
The issue here is that the average HN user has absolutely no idea how rough conditions these migrant workers tend to come from.
- eecc 5y agoThe average HN reader isn’t at all like that, though some will love to advertise their high-school math skills to justify their lack of care with a high brow witticism.
- smcl 5y agoIt’s frankly quite shocking how many people here are okay with this. I think most HNers are quite sheltered and unaware exactly how tough life for many people in the world and cannot accept it.
- heavenlyblue 5y agoThat doesn’t mean one should take any lazy journalism seriously though.
- traceroute66 5y ago> lazy journalism Well the article does come from The Guardian, an outlet that has a long-standing nickname of The Grauniad because of its long-standing history of typographical and other errors.
- buran77 5y ago> the average HN user has absolutely no idea how rough conditions these migrant workers tend to come from But do we want to frame it that way? Does it matter where you come from or where you come to? We're talking about Qatar here and if the numbers are correct, they're doing a bad job at keeping those people alive. Saying "it's worse where they come from" is not actually a defense. You judge the situation, not the trend. You can be better and still be terrible at the same time.
- doldols 5y ago> if the numbers are correct, they're doing a bad job at keeping those people alive. That’s actually not at all what those numbers suggest.