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It seems pretty obvious that a totalitarian petrostate, that bribed its way into using a global sports event as a massive PR push, doesn't care. What matters is whether we care that they don't care. What matters is whether we care that our sports institutions are massively corrupt.
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"Even a single preventable death on a job site is one too many. We are doubling down on safety precautions and training to prevent any further workplace hazards. While complete safety is impossible to achieve on a project of this scale, we are using our massive wealth to ensure our construction sites follow international best practices in this area. We value the lives and wellbeing of our workers and will take every…
There are 1+ million migrant workers in Qatar. Roughly, the average human mortality rate is about 1% per year. In a given population of 1 million, you could expect about 27 to die, on average each day . (0.01x1000000)/365 = 27 Sure, more elderly people make up the 1%, and if accounting for the workers ages maybe you'll have half that figure. Or a quarter. The point is, in context, one worker dying out of a million on…
No, this wouldn't fly in USA. If I was a CEO of an American company and one of my employees died, I would not react like that. But we're talking about a foreign country here.
It seems pretty obvious that a totalitarian petrostate, that bribed its way into using a global sports event as a massive PR push, doesn't care. What matters is whether we care that they don't care. What matters is whether we care that our sports institutions are massively corrupt.
We care but do we care enough to do something and what would that be?
Which isn't likely - all the people I know who were upset about Qatar hosting are sports fans in the first place and all got together to watch it regardless.
> He actually said that What is he supposed to say instead?
"Even a single preventable death on a job site is one too many. We are doubling down on safety precautions and training to prevent any further workplace hazards. While complete safety is impossible to achieve on a project of this scale, we are using our massive wealth to ensure our construction sites follow international best practices in this area. We value the lives and wellbeing of our workers and will take every…
That's the script alright.
I'm not convinced anyone is truly convinced the words are true. But it's the words you're supposed to say when an employee dies.
Of course they won't take every possible measure to ensure worker safety. It's more like, every possible measure that doesn't affect the bottom line too much. Construction work is dangerous in any country. People get hurt, sometimes they die, and there are diminishing returns efforts to mitigate this fact.
Context: > (CNN) Prominent American journalist Grant Wahl has died in Qatar after collapsing while covering the World Cup https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/09/football/grant-wahl-death-wor...
Context: > (CNN) Prominent American journalist Grant Wahl has died in Qatar after collapsing while covering the World Cup https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/09/football/grant-wahl-death-wor...
Is there a suggested causal link here…?
I think the concern is that Wahl seems to have been a generally healthy person (although recently been feeling sick, according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33931689), wrote a critical article about a famously hard government, received a bunch of death threats and the day after drops dead. Again, too early to reach any conclusions, I guess we'll have to wait for a proper autopsy before reading too much into it.
Maybe I am just cynical, but I highly doubt many leaders would actually care about a worker’s death. Most would like have the decorum and PR experience to feign shock, but I doubt you’d get more than an empty “oh that’s terrible“ from most in power. To me the fact that anyone would find this shocking is the most shocking part as it implies people are believing politicians facades.
Think as you like but behave like others is the western approach. They would bemoan the loss and be very emotional about it while internally thinking the same thing this guy said. I prefer my leaders to be less fluff.
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