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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." (archive.ph)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

shocked-pikachu

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

shocked-dino

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 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.