Good article about this.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/11/qatar-hosting-fifa-world-cup-soccer/672171/
Tl;dr — It’s silly in some ways to regard soccer as some kind of sacred sector of our economy, when we in the West have been selling out to the highest bidder for years, yet here we are.
In spite of past mistakes, the sheer ludicrousness of this particular event is enough of a slap in the face to make you think.