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176 km. Why don't they make a 1 kilometer proof of concept then plan the other 175 once they've ironed out the kinks?
by planetsprite 4y ago
176 km. Why don't they make a 1 kilometer proof of concept then plan the other 175 once they've ironed out the kinks?
- qprofyeh 4y agoThat’s too scary, what if the product doesn’t find market fit? Let’s just build the complete product first with VC money.
- ddalex 4y agoIf you would be the designer of this thing, how soon would you want the gig to be up ? The purpose of this thing is not economical, or political, or social - the purpose is to satisfy the ego of an autocrat, and as long as that ego is getting stroked, the money will continue to flow.
- IIAOPSW 4y agoOh, so the purpose of this thing is political.
- ddalex 4y agoI would argue against that, because I don't see any way that this projects supports either the internal or external policies of the kingdom - in order to support that, it would need to be realistic and credible, and its neither.
- panick21_ 4y agoIts basically just like tradition. Each no person who want to be a big player in Saudi must announce a new future cities. They have many already, all of them unfinished and unpractical. And then the money moves on the a new city of the future. I think is basically just a status competition 'my city is gone be a revolutionary design'. The guy after MBS will likely try a city in a spiral or something.