Sounds very complicated. Maybe someone should draw a chart.
Yes, you could use your moral compass to navigate it.
Yes, we shouldn't be doing that.
The idea that young people are excluded from housing because of policy failures of the Irish government is nonsense. They are excluded because of global economic decisions which the Irish government has been relatively successful at mitigating.
Well we are. In the circumstances, it’s unreasonable to assume that young workers should be any more informed or high-minded.
Do you agree that people are more oppressed in many Middle Eastern Countries than black people were in South Africa during Apartheid?
I wouldn’t have worked work in South Africa but that’s not the point.
That is the point.
Yes, and the line is blurred, but participating in and working for the oppressive regime is well over that line.
I agree.
I don't see that the age, qualification or job title of the participant has to do with anything. Calling out active collusion with, and participation in, an oppressive State is not tut-tutting. I'm simply pointing out the moral choice such people are making. They are entitled to do so but it's not unreasonable to point out the moral implications of their choice.
Well everyone makes their own decisions based on their own morals.
I'm referring to anyone working there, whether they are professionals or not, but I suppose everyone seems to be a professional nowadays.
Well, off the top of my head, we could organise a boycott of Sky TV until they drop coverage of F1 races in the region?????
You can choose not to subscribe to sky sports but what we're talking about would be someone who was working for a company in the region which was involved in the races in the region and was not paying income tax because of the exploitative system of government in their chosen country of residence.
You neither what?
What about the migrant workers from Bangladesh and other countries who built the World Cup stadiums and who doubtless do other low paid work that contributes to the economic well being of their host country.
The people at the bottom rarely benefit from their own exploitation. I'm unaware of any Irish people taking those jobs. If they weren't being exploited and there was a decent social infrastructure in place then the highly paid Irish would have to pay some income tax. They aren't paying any because such a social infrastructure isn't in place.
www.theguardian.com
If people are able to engage in the moral contortionism which justifies participating in and benefitting from that exploitation then that's their own business but in my opinion it is a despicable and reprehensible thing to do.Not only are their working conditions poor, but they are also lethal.
This report is two years old, but I have read nothing to indicate working conditions are any better for migrant workers.
Dying to keep families at home alive is not too dramatic a headline.
Revealed: 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since World Cup awarded
Guardian analysis indicates shocking figure over the past decade likely to be an underestimate
My point is that migrants traditionally move for economic reasons - to attain an income that wouldn’t be attainable at home.
Yep, it's an appalling country where the weak and vulnerable are exploited. People from rich countries who go to work there are doing so in order to benefit from the exploitation of others.