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> (hopefully you heard about what they did for the World Cup). What did they do? I mean, besides the ridiculous Guardian article claiming unrealistically low d

• polygamous_bat 4y ago
  > How would you describe the much worse lives of those people in their countries of origin? I was born in one of those countries, and personally know people who have made the choice to work in these counties. Do understand that people are not choosing to be quasi slaves because their lives are better as quasi slaves. No, more often it's a choice to create better lives for their families, and sometimes rarely it's a choice by their parents to ship off one out of their seven children to generate income. This quasi slavery is only possible through the insane arbitrage generated by petrodollars, and because we only selectively choose to be morally outraged at human rights violation only when it's done by the villain of the week.