That project always sounded absurd to me. Still does, even at a significantly scaled down version.
I often think this was a psyop by the west into self sabotaging the Saudi economy. People forget tech flourishes in more free societies. The Saudis aren’t free. This idea that free thinking people are going to live under a kingdom is wild. I rather live in a rat infested NYC then stop foot in this place. Green energy, AI all the buzz of the west they were trying to invent an economy along the oil they control and it’s going to blow up with massive mal-investment
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I have always been under the impression that if they dont get tourists there, it will fail. Maybe l am wrong, but l wouldnt want to live in the desert and sandstorms.
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92 sats \ 1 reply \ @drlh 8 Nov
I have this impresion for egypt. They welcome everyone besides the egyptians. Even non muslim women without hijab.
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They know their oil will runnout, so they are trying to establish another reason to stay relevent.
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69 sats \ 1 reply \ @drlh 8 Nov
You meant absolute monarchy? Because sweden, netherlands, belgium, hell united kingdom are all monarchies too.
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I thought they were more like figurehead monarchies.
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