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And it’s not looking pretty: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_buildings https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_build...

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arthurcolle 5y ago
How in the name of Allah is the nominal cost of mosque around the Kaaba $100 billion? That is bonkers
- JustFinishedBSG 5y ago
  Worth 5 state of the art nuclear power plants apparently...
- jhgb 5y ago
  Petrodollars, that's how.
- dpedu 5y ago
  I suspect this number is inflated for the purpose of showing off the kingdom's or the religion's wealth and power.
  - ganzuul 5y ago
    To me and I assume most Westerners it looks like an egregious excess while poverty is rampant. At least space projects produce trickle-down technology, but this is just busy-work.
    - arthurcolle 5y ago
      It's literally a building, nothing justifies that cost... where are the death ray lasers? Where is the re-atomizer? Makes no sense, the figure must be wrong
    - imtringued 5y ago
      Busy work feeds people.
      - ganzuul 5y ago
        So does farming.
        willcipriano 5y ago
        Farming jobs provide poverty like lifestyles, building jobs provide relatively middle class lifestyles. You need both to keep a modern society going.
        ganzuul 5y ago
        You can't eat a building.
- Spooky23 5y ago
  The the cousin of the brother in law of some minor prince has to get his piece of the pie. If you’re ever in New York, check out the Tweed courthouse, which was built in the 1880s. The total cost was $10.5B 2020 dollars.
  - lelandfe 5y ago
    Tammany Hall did corruption better than anybody. Robert Moses would blush. It’s worth reading the line items from that construction. Carpenters getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars - multiple millions now - for a couple days of work. Enough carpeting ordered to cover whole parks several times.
  - hn_throwaway_99 5y ago
    > The total cost was $10.5B 2020 dollars. Where did you get that number? Wikipedia has the costs around 11-13 million, also consistent with this https://www1.nyc.gov/site/designcommission/public-programs/tours/about-tweed.page https://www1.nyc.gov/site/designcommission/public-programs/t..., or $304 million in 2019 dollars.
    - arthurcolle 5y ago
      shit I guess inflation this year really WAS crazy haha!

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arthurcolle 5y ago

How in the name of Allah is the nominal cost of mosque around the Kaaba $100 billion? That is bonkers

JustFinishedBSG 5y ago
Worth 5 state of the art nuclear power plants apparently...
jhgb 5y ago
Petrodollars, that's how.
dpedu 5y ago
I suspect this number is inflated for the purpose of showing off the kingdom's or the religion's wealth and power.
- ganzuul 5y ago
  To me and I assume most Westerners it looks like an egregious excess while poverty is rampant. At least space projects produce trickle-down technology, but this is just busy-work.
  - arthurcolle 5y ago
    It's literally a building, nothing justifies that cost... where are the death ray lasers? Where is the re-atomizer? Makes no sense, the figure must be wrong
  - imtringued 5y ago
    Busy work feeds people.
    - ganzuul 5y ago
      So does farming.
      - willcipriano 5y ago
        Farming jobs provide poverty like lifestyles, building jobs provide relatively middle class lifestyles. You need both to keep a modern society going.
        ganzuul 5y ago
        You can't eat a building.
Spooky23 5y ago
The the cousin of the brother in law of some minor prince has to get his piece of the pie. If you’re ever in New York, check out the Tweed courthouse, which was built in the 1880s. The total cost was $10.5B 2020 dollars.
- lelandfe 5y ago
  Tammany Hall did corruption better than anybody. Robert Moses would blush. It’s worth reading the line items from that construction. Carpenters getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars - multiple millions now - for a couple days of work. Enough carpeting ordered to cover whole parks several times.
- hn_throwaway_99 5y ago
  > The total cost was $10.5B 2020 dollars. Where did you get that number? Wikipedia has the costs around 11-13 million, also consistent with this https://www1.nyc.gov/site/designcommission/public-programs/tours/about-tweed.page https://www1.nyc.gov/site/designcommission/public-programs/t..., or $304 million in 2019 dollars.
  - arthurcolle 5y ago
    shit I guess inflation this year really WAS crazy haha!