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Re:One-night stands will be illegal at the 2022 World Cup in... by mercy_dude on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @09:01AM (#31835491)
> 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.

Isn’t that exactly like how the L1/H1B system in US work? Employer sponsoring and being tied to the employer till the lottery?

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Re:One-night stands will be illegal at the 2022 World Cup in... by throwaway894345 on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @09:35AM (#31835812)
It's a significant difference of degree. First of all H1B visa holders are not close to 90% of the US population, nor are they exploited to the degree that migrant workers are in Qatar (look at the death rates of those workers compared with US H1B visa holders). Similarly, the US doesn't allow H1B companies to take custody of the worker's passport, thereby locking them in the country. We should reform our H1B system, but these two things aren't particularly comparable.
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Re:One-night stands will be illegal at the 2022 World Cup in... by colordrops on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @09:12AM (#31835601)
Even worse in China. They will hold your passport and force you to stay in dorms.
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