Bloomberg: "Saudis scale back ambition for $1.5 trillion desert project Neom. In Neom, The Line was expected to house 1.5 million by 2030. Now, fewer than 300,000 are expected to live there by then."

InevitableSwing [none/use name] · 7 months ago

Bloomberg: "Saudis scale back ambition for $1.5 trillion desert project Neom. In Neom, The Line was expected to house 1.5 million by 2030. Now, fewer than 300,000 are expected to live there by then."

tombruzzo [none/use name] · 7 months ago

Call me a stick in the mud but I'm gonna wager there will be 0 people living in Neom come 2030

rasakaf679@lemmy.ml · 7 months ago

Its literally a toaster oven. In the middle of the desert with cement and only hot air

GrouchyGrouse [he/him] · 7 months ago

More money than God and the best they could come up with was this stupid shit. The Saudis are like a vortex of both monarchy and modern bourgeoisie that does extremely bad things. A nexus of shit.

Thanks, T E Lawrence.

tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them] · 7 months ago

Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them] · 7 months ago

Fishroot [none/use name] · edit-2 7 months ago

A nomadic tribes and multiple slave workers paid the ultimate price for the vanity project of a failson

itappearsthat · 7 months ago

I had totally memory-holed this shit and thought it was like the epitome of the zero interest rate crypto boom days, they're actually serious about it?

InevitableSwing [none/use name] · 7 months ago

I assume MBS is serious about it and he seems to function like a quasi-dictator. But even for Saudi - their plans were (and remain) insane. My hunch is one day construction will quietly and totally stop. After that - any Saudi citizen even making a tiny joke about it online is in danger of prison, torture, execution - or all three. And I bet MBS is super-touchy about it until the end of his life.