Submitted by PlantedinCA t3_zm9ef6 in nottheonion
PlantedinCA
PlantedinCA t1_iu7bcvl wrote
Reply to comment by Smacpats111111 in Homeless man builds a mini house on Hollywood Blvd by Smacpats111111
Usually the city options are “you can sleep here, leave your stuff in this insecure cubby, or take it with you. And you need to be gone all day. Can’t come back till 8p.” Not only that these places are dangerous full of violence, people getting raped, all their stuff stolen while they sleep.
It’s not like a dorm room. It is a bunch of cots set up in a huge room.
Yeah a box on the street sounds a lot better to me. At least it is your space and you can watch / protect your stuff.
PlantedinCA t1_iuv685w wrote
Reply to There were over 6500 deaths while constructing the infrastructure. Workers were living in squalid accommodations, were forced to pay huge recruitment fees, and had had wages withheld and their passports confiscated. How many of you will boycott the World Cup in Qatar? by LogiC1919
Qatar had been practicing modern day slavery for their whole construction industry for ages. Why would this be different?
A friend mine was an archaeologist in Qatar for years. They just imported brown and black (Africans, south Asians…) people to process all the sites. Her contract was with the government because they want to preserve as they built. All of the workers were nicer and protective of her because she was “brown” like them - as she is South East Asian and all the other “in charge” folks were white.