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daveclampart OP t1_ix35e8t wrote

Reply to comment by D-D-D-D-D-D-Derek in In honour of FIFA, who are absolutely not corrupt bastards by daveclampart

Yeah honestly I'm amazed at the lack of due diligence from FIFA. You can argue facts and figures of deaths and natural causes all you want, but surely you have to look at how a country treats it workers before you hand them a vast infrastructure project like this

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D-D-D-D-D-D-Derek t1_ix35yo4 wrote

Hmm it’s not a lack of due diligence, fifa are randomly quite good at it.

These bids are a smokescreen, the due diligence and review of bids is very thorough, then the nations bid for whoever’s paid them the most and it’s decided.

I remember I read the report for the South Africa bidding process as a student (review of mega projects- olympics world cups and similar). All the bids are scored and there’s multiple rounds, you can see where the corruption happens - best bid is winning one round and next round the bid that scraped through wins by a landslide.

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daveclampart OP t1_ix368jv wrote

That's interesting. Do they take the history of workers' rights into account behind the scenes? Because from the outside it seems like they mostly focus on whether the project can be done, rather than how it will actually be achieved

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farhanh7 t1_ix398al wrote

Good thing they don’t take historical workers rights into account as the US would have no chance of hosting the tournament ay!

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Thijs_NLD t1_ix3b17f wrote

..... lack of diligence from FIFA? Have you not been aware of FIFA or something? This was a completely expected and predictable sequence of events from our friends in FIFA.

There is no oversight for FIFA. It's a self contained miniverse of old dude's sucking each other off (preverbally) while extorting all of us and other nations for cash.

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