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Originally Posted by GirlySports
We were just talking about the stadiums but yes you are right, they built an entire city infrastructure hoping to one day turn it into Dubai.
But it cost taxpayers nothing right? In fact I think we might have spent more taxpayer money sending people there the last month 
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They didnt even fill the stadiums during the World Cup itself. How do you figure they're going to fare without Marquee events?
Again...goalposts. I'm no 'Middle East' specialist or anything, but I dont think they even have taxes ergo...no taxpayers. At least not within something we would consider a Western Tax Structure.
I still have difficulty wrapping my mind around it. All that money, all those resources all of that Carbon...all of those workers and the suffering...
Yeah. I think we can safely call it a waste.
But who knows? They're crafty folk those Qataris, maybe they'll parlay having a crapload of decrepit, empty and decaying buildings and a ghost-city into some sweet Hollywood cash as movie sets?
Or one really big Paintball course.