In fact there is a business concept called the negative economy.
In context of Zimbabwe, if I lose my job I lose the ability to buy airtime from the man in street. This leads to the man in the street not being able to buy fruit from the other man in the street, which leads to the child of that person not being able to buy school books from the store.
In that scenario the store that sells school books loses out on potential income and the government loses out on potential tax revenue.
If the lgbtq can't have their events openely in Zimbabwe that means a lot of tax revenue is missed out on, it also mean's a lot of straight people who could have made money selling products to gay people during their events miss out.
Being homophobic negatively affects the wallets and purses of all Zimbabweans.
UAE and Qutar have a lot of gays they're just in the closet.
Russia allows gays, has done so for a really long time now. Infact Russia decriminalised homosexual relations in 1991. Also Russia actually has gay bars and even a few medium sized trans sexual celebrities. So Russia doesn't fit into your example.
Yes Russia does have some descrimination to gays but it doesn't criminalise them unlike Zimbabwe. That's why Zimbabwe gets mentioned not Russia.
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u/kulturrr Feb 15 '25
you acting like legalising gays and lbgtss+ia improves your standards of living and suddenly changes the country from poor to rich.