Qatar is spending a huge amount to host the soccer world cup in 2022. Some sources say 200 billion, others less, but either way a lot of money. I'm guessing the main costs are to build stadiums. Its one thing to build stadiums in host countries that have a big soccer loving community, and thus these stadiums will be used by the local teams in the future, but in Qatar this will not be likely to happen, as it is a small country. So, I'm guessing the vast majority of the spending will go to infrastructure that will be used primarily for just one month. At a population of two million people, that's about 100k per capita. This is truly insane, imho.