It’s basically been kind of like paying the world $200 billion to attend your talent show and then shitting your pants in the middle of your dance number. The added attention has only brought them further scrutiny, along with a whole new commercial airliner’s worth of baggage. Something that, pretty definitively, is not happening. So why not only go through with this, but participate in aggressive, questionably immoral practices all in order to lose a hair over 200 billion dollars? Qatar was never in this for the money, but wanted to host in order, basically, for the clout, and in order to improve the global image of Qatar. You know something is too expensive when the prospect of it making $17 billion dollars is a massive failure. The estimated money to be made off the event for Qatar is only $17 billion. Qatar has spent approximately 220 billion dollars on hosting the world cup. You don’t need a business degree, or really even high-school math, to see that the math doesn’t work out. When it’s over, however, and the world’s TVs turn elsewhere, that stadium will probably turn into yet another abandoned testament to a couple weeks of activity. If you’re watching the World Cup currently happening in Qatar, you’re witnessing the majesty of the massive stadiums (7 built specifically for the event) and required infrastructure built by Qatar to host the event.
Here are 5 modern-day white elephant projects that countries burned money on. Imagine winning a Bugatti in a lottery that you had to pay taxes on and keep in perfect working condition, but you weren’t allowed to drive it and neither you or your descendants were ever allowed to sell it. Not to mention you couldn’t give it away without pissing off the kind of monarch that was giving away white elephants. The white elephants were prohibited from performing any labor on account of being so sacred, and were an absolute money sink. Unfortunately, honor was pretty much the only positive of getting one, as they were more likely to make your day-to-day life a living hell. Monarchs there considered a white elephant an ultimate sign of power and luxury, and receiving one as a gift was an unmeasurable honor. These sort of vanity projects nowadays are often referred to as “white elephants,” a saying that now graces Secret Santa spinoffs but originated in Southeast Asia. Some stuff, though, is fairly indefensible, by being something that is so physically large it’s impossible to ignore, hugely expensive, and almost completely useless. You can have long and relevant arguments about the amounts spent on things like the military or defense contractors, but it will always be met with the condescending “we’re just keeping you safe” explanation, instead of a realistic budget breakdown and demonstration of effect. It doesn’t help that scandals involving embezzled public funds are a regular part of the news cycle. Wasted public funds are even more closely judged now, with the world’s infrastructure and economy still showing deep scars after the COVID pandemic.
When you’re throwing out money sums that well eclipse an amount an ordinary citizen’s entire bloodline would ever be able to amass, you’d better make sure the reasoning is pretty damn bulletproof. In many cases, of course, the scrutiny is well deserved. If your post randomly disappeared, it's probably because it has already been posted.Countries’ proper use of public funds is something that, almost without fail, is always subject to derisive scrutiny.
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