Having thousands of “workers” die in order to host a high prestige sporting event is definitely bad taste. Of course there are cultural differences as well, bu

Having thousands of “workers” die in order to host a high prestige sporting event is definitely bad taste. Of course there are cultural differences as well, but modern-day Spartas with 90% permanent underclasses are fundamentally repugnant under any culture. I’ll also note that in many of the wealthy Gulf states, the rules are so unequally enforced that the ruling people do enjoy many of the vices they supposedly disagree with in Western culture. There are other countries where cultural differences are in good faith, Qatar isn’t one of them.