system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: If the world cup put such an economic strain on Brazil, why would Qatar want to host it?
gpt
These massive events make a lot of money for people in a position to capitalize on them, often through corrupt channels. So business and government and sports agency personnel who think they can work things to their advantage push them through and cheerlead for them, and do their best to disguise the costs and risks that might deter the public from supporting them. So they get rich, and people not in on the scam - ordinary tax-paying citizens, bear the brunt of the costs.