<story><title>One-night stands will be illegal at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar</title><url>https://www.marca.com/en/world-cup/2022/06/21/62b1b8e446163f7e7a8b45af.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nemo44x</author><text>&amp;gt; the only color they care about is green.&lt;p&gt;As it should be. Corporations should not have many opinions and should operate within the law. If corporate leaders or employees don’t like it then they can spend their free time lobbying or campaigning for politicians that want to change things. Only after the law is changed should the company make a change. Until then, business as usual.</text></item><item><author>moomoo11</author><text>Lol it’s also every single company ever. Look at the US&amp;#x2F;Western twitter accounts of major corporations and they’re all rainbows. Then look at their Middle East or other regions twitter accounts.. the only color they care about is green. Everything else is marketing backed by legal.&lt;p&gt;I was selected for a project in a Gulf country and we had a preliminary session where I got an eye opener. Basically, no women or gays, no non Islam religious paraphernalia, no atheists, no Jews and if you have Israeli stamp the company would help you get a new passport, no drinking, cover up tattoos. Never noped the fuck outta something as fast as declining that project. No money is worth working for these savage nations.&lt;p&gt;It’s gross how much these corporations act woke in the west and then basically bend to these kinds of countries. Disgusting, and yet everyone in the west eats up the marketing propaganda.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>What I love is that institutions like universities will happily link arms with Qatar for the $$$, despite the neo-slavery: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.qatar.northwestern.edu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.qatar.northwestern.edu&lt;/a&gt;. Really puts their woke messaging at home in context.</text></item><item><author>sshine</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gctpnews.org&amp;#x2F;qatar-2022-world-cup-death-toll&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gctpnews.org&amp;#x2F;qatar-2022-world-cup-death-toll&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The name of the current [migrant worker employment] system is kafala, a system forcing all migrants to be sponsored and subsequently tied to an employer. The kafala system has been frequently described as modern day slavery due to its exploitative nature. This employer controls housing, wages, travel, and the well being of each employee.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;[...] an estimated 4,000 migrant workers will die, making this event the deadliest in sporting history.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;90% of Qatar&amp;#x27;s population and 94% of its workforce are foreign workers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmoriarty</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Corporations should not have many opinions and should operate within the law.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That would almost be ok if corporations weren&amp;#x27;t allowed to lobby the government, have their employees, owners or board members go work in politics or have other types of influence on politicians.&lt;p&gt;But they have &lt;i&gt;tremendous&lt;/i&gt; influence on the laws that they themselves ostensibly have to follow.&lt;p&gt;Not to mention that:&lt;p&gt;- even when they break laws they tend to get just a slap on the wrist&lt;p&gt;- the corporate execs responsible for the lawbreaking rarely go to jail&lt;p&gt;- even if they&amp;#x27;re unlucky enough to go to jail the jails tend to be cushy country clubs&lt;p&gt;- execs have golden parachutes that let them cash out even if they screw the company, and can easily get jobs elsewhere (not that the people at the top who bear ultimate responsibility for the company even have to work another day in their life)&lt;p&gt;- corporations manipulate voters&amp;#x27; opinions through (perfectly legal) advertising, PR, media ownership&amp;#x2F;influence, sponsorship, greenwashing, astroturfing, etc</text></comment>
<story><title>One-night stands will be illegal at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar</title><url>https://www.marca.com/en/world-cup/2022/06/21/62b1b8e446163f7e7a8b45af.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nemo44x</author><text>&amp;gt; the only color they care about is green.&lt;p&gt;As it should be. Corporations should not have many opinions and should operate within the law. If corporate leaders or employees don’t like it then they can spend their free time lobbying or campaigning for politicians that want to change things. Only after the law is changed should the company make a change. Until then, business as usual.</text></item><item><author>moomoo11</author><text>Lol it’s also every single company ever. Look at the US&amp;#x2F;Western twitter accounts of major corporations and they’re all rainbows. Then look at their Middle East or other regions twitter accounts.. the only color they care about is green. Everything else is marketing backed by legal.&lt;p&gt;I was selected for a project in a Gulf country and we had a preliminary session where I got an eye opener. Basically, no women or gays, no non Islam religious paraphernalia, no atheists, no Jews and if you have Israeli stamp the company would help you get a new passport, no drinking, cover up tattoos. Never noped the fuck outta something as fast as declining that project. No money is worth working for these savage nations.&lt;p&gt;It’s gross how much these corporations act woke in the west and then basically bend to these kinds of countries. Disgusting, and yet everyone in the west eats up the marketing propaganda.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>What I love is that institutions like universities will happily link arms with Qatar for the $$$, despite the neo-slavery: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.qatar.northwestern.edu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.qatar.northwestern.edu&lt;/a&gt;. Really puts their woke messaging at home in context.</text></item><item><author>sshine</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gctpnews.org&amp;#x2F;qatar-2022-world-cup-death-toll&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gctpnews.org&amp;#x2F;qatar-2022-world-cup-death-toll&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The name of the current [migrant worker employment] system is kafala, a system forcing all migrants to be sponsored and subsequently tied to an employer. The kafala system has been frequently described as modern day slavery due to its exploitative nature. This employer controls housing, wages, travel, and the well being of each employee.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;[...] an estimated 4,000 migrant workers will die, making this event the deadliest in sporting history.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;90% of Qatar&amp;#x27;s population and 94% of its workforce are foreign workers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lancesells</author><text>IMO this is a terrible take on what companies should be doing. &amp;quot;Unless there&amp;#x27;s a law against it we should be doing it&amp;quot; is not how people who make up a corporation should be thinking.</text></comment>