Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "How Qatar built stadiums with forced labor" video.

  1. Correction: Qatar is NOT the richest country per capita. A large portion of their population does not have documents and officially don't exist.
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  2. No, that's simply not how it works at all. You need a job lined up before you're issued certain classes of passport, but there's a whole alphabet soup. But more importantly, there's no travel restrictions with the passport, and we actually have labor laws. And I will castrate you insist otherwise.
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  3. It's a scam. They promise good wages and then simply seize their passports and refuse to pay them. Sometimes they have to take out loans to get to the middle east, sometimes they pay near all their wages in arbitrary fines, sometimes their pay is withheld as an eventual large bonus that will never come, and many are beaten for complaining or asking questions. And the cost of living in the oil states is very high and state subsidized, meaning the laborers are stuck in whatever housing the employer provides which are generally worse than prisons with more men than beds, streams of sewage on the grounds, few if any showers, and guards that will berate the "filthy foreigners."
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  4. Not exactly. This was already a known issue for decades, it's just the world cup has made it widely known.
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  5. Lose the whataboutism, you're no good at it. You literally just said that A) All employment is slavery and B) Qatar and America are the same size. Now go away before you get doxxed and castrated for your arrogance and stupidity.
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  6. The scam depends on information vacuums. If potential victims know, they won't fall for it.
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  7. They're literally one of the few absolute monarchies left on Earth.
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  8. That's an oxymoron.
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  9. Because everyone else is. Literally, they think this level of abuse is normal, and a lot of them are angry at the world because of it.
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  10. Watch the video, that's not even how that worked and you know it.
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  11.  @griffinsmith6614  what does that have to do with hodgies scamming chumps?
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  12. More than that, most of the Arab world has some form of this.
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  13. A lot of those places have had Vox pieces about them already, that's how you know about them, so why are you angry about this piece? And the assumption that all employment is slavery is extremely suspicious about your worldview. I suggest you leave before someone finds out who you are and what your connection to this is, because they'll probably go full Aztec on your sternum.
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  14.  @shoking9825  Shut up
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  15. They're Qatari state owned.
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  16. Every one that isn't a scam like you.
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  17. Sometimes employers are arrested for just that, the most recent case being a Dominican sugar company that's been blacklisted by the US for a lot of this behavior. It's why we are very suspicious of people who seem to target immigrants for employment.
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  18. That's how it's all sustained. Literally nothing these guys do is profitable, but they can just give foreign oil drillers all sorts of arbitrary fees and taxes and use that money to prop up this junk.
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  19. The Arabs will take anyone that'll fall for their scams.
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  20. Qatar was never bright
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  21. If it were up to me we'd just go full French Revolution on their butts
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  22. Shut up.
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  23. Qatar wanted to become famous, but that just means it's now impossible to hide their crimes.
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  24.  @cul8terworld  Troll elsewhere
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  25. It makes them feel powerful. Most people who steal are not in it to make money, but they get a thrill out of the act of taking.
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  26. Use? They? Vox is an independent company and the countries that own those other channels aren't boycotting anything. You're not making sense.
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  27. Original reporting is not copying work.
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  28. Uh... No, you just weren't paying attention. VICE did a lot of reporting on it, still does. The world cup has just made more people interested.
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  29. The world cup has caused interest in Qatar to soar.
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  30. Not if you know anything.
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  31. That's silly. They had to bribe FIFA in order to get it instead of all the other applicants.
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  32. And Qatar refuses to pay them and won't let them leave.
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  33. Not exactly. A lot of those are imported skilled workers that work for the foreign oil drillers. Those guys spend most of their time in their own little communities and know nothing of the Arabs around them and they are well paid and career for.
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  34. They promise wages and then refuse to pay it.
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  35. As if these very media sources are your primary sources for information on that topic.
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