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Oh hahahaha, now watch as you have the lowest WC attendance in history and be the first modern WC to lose money.
losing money on a sure thing would be totally on brand for donvict & co.
America will simply be the largest casino he's bankrupted so far
Why people Talk about Casinos... He bankrupted Casinos but this destroyed the whole fucking City (anyway get my upvote)
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I'm happy when my cell phone already writes the words I write and that's already a frustrating act, if punctuation marks are added, the cell phone is in 1000 pieces on the wall.
Ticket sales are already going so badly that they're CHEAPER on the secondhand market! Scalpers are taking a loss to get rid of them, which is pretty much unheard of for an event like a world cup.
People are even more wary of traveling to Trump's US than to the Emir's Qatar or Putin's Russia.
Wait, are tickets for the 2026 World Cup already on sale?
Cities hosting the WC almost never recoup their investments. Sure, it's a windfall for a select few, but it is a bad investment for everyone else.
I don't know why ~~you're~~ you were being downvoted, you're absolutely right.
As documented by an excellent Last Week Tonight segment and also another, FIFA and a select few rich people and corporations profiting off of lucrative contracts snatch up all the income and leave everyone else with all the expenses.
I think you just answered your own question. :)
They hope for tourist. So do the math. Carefully... you must using MAGA math xD
It doesn't have to be profitable for the "city" that's socialized cost. It just needs to be profitable for capital.
They'll burn $10 of your money to make $1 in profit.
I doubt FIFA is on the Republican take, and the event brings a bunch of brown people and Euros to town. Why would they care if it succeeds? If anything making it fail is part of their deliberate campaign of chaos.
Well that would be the first corrupt administration they didn't jump in bed with at the first opportunity then.
Yeah, holding the world cup in dictatorships is kind of their thing.
At what point is it a fetish for them?
It's just plain corruption, but I guess they get off on having lots of money?
As long as the cheque clears, they don't care.
Countries like Qatar, Brazil want to host the games for the prestige and the affinity for the sport.
US Republicans don't give a shit about "soccer." Being the brilliant dealmakers they are, they probably want FIFA to pay them.
Clearly you know very little about FIFA in general and Trump's buddy Infantino in particular..
Neither have ever seen a despotic government they didn't want bribes from.
Genuine question, don't almost all countries lose money when they host the World Cup?
FIFA literally keeps all ticket sales and broadcasting money. Your only hope is to entice more visitors in the future or be an European country that already has stadiums literally everywhere.
No, they don't. A lot of money is generated from the attendance via hotel bookings, restaurant meals, alcohol sales, day excursions, VAT taxes, etc. For the tourism industry it's like shooting fish in a barrel.
How does the world cup define losing money? Because the absolute devastation that the world cup leaves in it's wake to already poor and impoverished populations is definitely not being calculated. The human cost of labor exploitation alone is awful. But I guess that's what they mean by "profitable" anyway.
That's for host countries that have to build stadiums. WC2026 is going to use existing stadiums in the US, Canada and Mexico, just like WC1994 the last time in the US. Not every WC is like Qatar that had to build all new stadiums for all the venues. It's always preferable that a host country already has capable stadiums like WC2014 in Brazil or WC2006 in Germany.