“THIS CITY WILL BE ECO FRIENDLY EVEN IF IT MEANS I HAVE TO DESTROY THE ENVIRONMENT AND KILL EVERYONE LIVING WHERE I WANT TO PUT THE CITY TO BUILD IT!”
I wish I was savvy enough to get in on this grift.
I think the savyness needed is surprisingly low.
But there’s also a level of psychopathy needed that just not that many can reach.
This has always sounded dumb to me.
All of these flashy Arab projects are giant grifts. The royalty want to solidify their legacy with megaprojects, but they are essentially overgrown children so they have to be dazzled and entertained with buzzword-laden presentations of CGI utopias, which they then tout as “their project.” It gets less than halfway built, and then sits in the desert to decay in the sand as a monument to stupidity and human exploitation.
yeah i cant figure how this dumb fucking project is still alive. money i guess
Hubris. Can’t back down or people think you’re weak.
