Qatar Conscripts Civilians for World Cup Security

SOCIETY
Issue #317
17 Nov 2022
Ah, the value of mandatory military service - you can just use it to conscript civilians to do other work, such as maintaining security of what might still be the biggest single sporting event in the world, the World Cup. It’s interesting to speculate what conditions it would take for the state to suspend freedom of labour and take over its allocation. We all believe we’re free, until we’re not.