• tombruzzo [none/use name]
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    9 months ago

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

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    9 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.

  • Fishroot [none/use name]
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    9 months ago

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

  • itappearsthat
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    9 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]
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      9 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.