Are you hoping to join Economics Explained in the list of countries you can't visit? :-D

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I don't trust anytime 83% is used after HIMYM

If you don’t say this is bullshit I will forever hate u ser.

We need to jam some planes in that wall idc idc payback mf

Actually quite the opposite. Every concept is "doable" in theory. The limitations sre technological.

​@@danielpirez381 The reality is that "The Line" is positioned in or near 10 seismotectonic zones, with two comprising the highest risks. Do an internet search on the topic.

@@danielpirez381 Even if the Line was possible technologically, it’s still completely idiotic. Saudi Arabia has a citizen population of around 19 million (their population is declining btw, it’s not like they’re Nigeria) and the Line is projected to eventually house 9 million. Are they honestly expecting nearly half their population to move? Even if that did magically happen, the housing market in the rest of Saudi Arabia would crash in spectacular fashion. Unless they convince 9 million expats willing to move to the desert (again, Saudi Arabia’s population is declining so they obviously are failing at that), the project makes zero sense

I have those issues too but I'm still pretty nice

If even an architect can see insurmountable issues here then imagine the nightmares the engineers are having just thinking about this fever dream project.

@@ShadowLynx777 valid point

You mean, like the spy bots that want to monitor everyone 24 hours a day, even in "private"? Why would they do that? "To optimize the city experience," of course. Sounds like data mining for optimizing the advertising (not to mention the morality police).

The gulf is littered with dick measuring contests all the time, from the tallest skyscraper, to the car with most wheels and most luxurious toilet because neighbour Abdulah has one

I think Amazon/Microsoft/Google have proven that AI is being implemented practically. When you narrow your criteria to search algorithms, targeted advertising, mapping, geolocation and mass surveillance it's a proven technology. The companies that use AI don't want talk about it, though.

@@colingravon9810 using it like that is nothing new or special

@@colingravon9810 AI like that is just computational statistics.

Now just throw in "crypto blockchain" and they can go get themselves some investors.

​@@megaprojects9649 You don't know Simon, 30 years ago they used to tell Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Al Maktoum that he is crazy about building Dubai now, one of the most beautiful and most important cities in the world in the tourism, business and entertainment sector Saudi Arabia’s giant projects are many and varied in almost all sectors, and they are worthy of praise because they are racing against time to move away from oil and want sustainability as well as innovation, and this is what the world wants in new projects . Have you heard about the Amaala project, the Qiddiya project, the Red Sea project, the Diriyah project, the King Abdulaziz Road project in Makkah, the Jeddah Airport project, the Knowledge City project in Madinah, the Al-Soudah Company project, the Waad Al-Shamal project, the King Salman City for Maritime Industries project, a project SPARK (King Salman Energy City), the King Abdullah Financial District project in Riyadh These are some projects and new ideas do not stop at the Saudi government and the latest Project NEOM TROJENA

its more like stupidity

You know what they say about Pride?

@@anthonyhassett that its gay?

No one does insane egotism like Arab oil sheikhs. I knew a PMC guy who worked as a bodyguard for some son of an UAE oil field owner and the guy went into a Rolex shop and tried on a watch, the latch got stuck so the guy went apeshit and refused to let the salesman unlatch to and had one of his entourage cut it off, destroying the watch in the process.

@@anthonyhassett The last phase before the fall 🙂

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_planned_cities

Not necessary a natural resources but there needs to be a reason why people would want to live there.

@@pupip55 this guy(ProducerBasement) has watched 'Adam something' video on neom and is repeating the same thing. Dangers of watching some youtubers and parroting and not necessarily knowing what you are talking about. Adam doesn't know much either XD.

@@cyberpunkdenton9497 I also don't know what i'm talking about.

Maybe Brazilia

the "dreamers" are not the rich; the "dreamers" are S.T.E.M. Ph.D.s - the Saudis hope to attract the global scientific elite that currently moves to America on H1B visa (the genius visa)

I think mega cities like this are usually successful. They're rarely designed to actually be built, they're vanity dreams, sort of like someone building their dream home in The Sims that has 3 hot tubs and 13 toilets in 1 bathroom. They dont solve problems since they're not designed too, hence why they're sometimes virtually impossible to build even by someone like Jeff Bezos.

More likely it is a demand to the Middle Eastern country from a major-buyer-country of the former's oil, to order some superexpensive monstrosities from their companies (as main contractors) in order to adress the trade deficit.

@@VersusARCH With prior Saudi megaprojects like the Jeddah Tower they did hire foreign designers engineers, and architects but that's standard for massive building projects like that. America has tons of worldwide architects and engineers but they still end up hiring foreign firms sometimes since there just arent that many companies with the skill and experience building giant towers. Some finished projects like the Mecca Clock Towers were built partially with domestic and partially foreign engineers and architects. In all these cases though they use domestic construction companies and use a lot of domestic materials like local brick and concrete. Building materials that come from outside the country like wire and steel will come from a variety of countries since there are really only a few major copper producers and a ton of steel producers but not really any countries with major amounts of both and different building materials are often made by different companies even if they use the same materials (so steel bolts and girders are often made by different companies). I've never built in Saudi Arabia but my families been in construction for 4 generations in my home state, and quite often the most money goes to a few places: the laborers and craftsmen building the place in the form of wages, the financial backer/investor/bank, the developer, the material suppliers, and the general contractor. The laborers, financial backer, developer, and general contractor are all locals as are some of the material suppliers. Once the building is finished the money made off it will go to local business since its locally owned. This all means there isnt much money to be made by a foreign country forcing Saudi Arabia to build insane megaprojects. As Simon mentioned though dictators often do vanity projects to show off their power though and these megaprojects can be good for the local economy by investing in infrastructure and renting the office space out. One of the Saudi's largest buildings is a commerce tower similar to the World Trade Center and it rents space to a ton of businesses earning the country revenue.

They really should be focusing on more things like the Al Nadya project

I don't imagine many 'poor' people living there. I can't imagine many rich people staying very long.

kind of like some maps on destiny 2.

Kinda like hunger games in a straight line saga

I would make it a survival game. Imagine the idea of AI (similar to the Red Queen from Resident Evil) having 110 miles to experiment with different people. Each section is a different experiment. All controlled by the Saudi government. Pharma companies able to test and experiment with people without worrying about repercussions. This is how the Saudis could keep paying for the Line.

Ever watched the movie, Snowpiercer?

Life imitates art. Problem is that art is not always practical.

Right!? While they behead 80 ppl in public executions... everything's perfect 🥴

They’ll have to dream that women can drive and gays can exist, too

Yes. The line! 175 km public transport system by Maglev or Hyperloop. That is what they are planning. Really? With a population of 1 million people only? How can the system be profitable? If not, how much money is required to subside it each year? Sustainable?

Exactly

@@catchnkill right... And for that matter why is anyone going to move there? What industry will it produce? What exports? Everything they have proposed is industry to support the Line itself.

Dont mention the war! I mentioned it once but i think i got away with it

@@collinb5524 DON'T MIND HIM HE'S FROM BARCELONA !

Don't forget "Ice Pirates"

Glad I'm not the only one who thought that.

@@andrewgause6971 Robot Jox? Dystopian for sure.

Flying taxis, hyperloop, Ai everywhere, and 0 carbon emissions from all this. Seems legit

Chapo Trap House has a video mocking Neom and they make the same connection to “Real Steel”.

Brave New World, 1984, Animal Farm, these books are based on the real world.

@@BoostedPastime art imitating life soon turns to life imitating art. How poetic

You act as these things is a common, every existence. You literally have to go out of your way to find them.

@@BoostedPastime ..and don't forget Judge Dredd.

@@lashlarue59 I need to read that!

@Haanz Vitesse. Autocracy would be a big improvemend on wat they are now

They should be more like Afghanistan. Free and democratic.

I find it amusing how people judge an entire country based on what they learned from the media propaganda Suddenly everyone is an expert in politics and foreign affairs!

@@bttawfiq To be honest, I think that a country which lures a journalist critical of its regime into one of its embassies in a foreign country, murders him, and cuts up his body with a hacksaw, might have a human rights problem... I'm not an expert, but I feel able to make a judgement call on this one

@@jessejoyce1295 this proves that you don't know the truth, only what the media told you, exactly... He wasn't "just" a journalist to begin with, and let's leave it at that....

Measured? Calculated perhaps, down to the bullet points that the marketeers of this project seem to have made around youtube.

This is sarcastic, right?

Or that city in South Africa, or that city in China - both featured on this channel. Has the "I'm going to build a city ... let's see... yes, over there looks good. It'll be fabulous (do something about those peasants will you?)" approach ever worked? Historically? And the Saudi's track record with large ambitious projects isn't good, as Simon pointed out. But dreams are free at least.

@@MrPossumeyes most of the colonial cities in the Americas were done with that same approach...only had to almost exterminate most of the native people and relocate the remaining to undesirable locations. Us savages were used to harsher living, and what's a few million savage lives in the name of progress?

@@Nipplator99999999999 I know Brasilia was planned, come to think of it (no doubt with plenty of Bugger off, you lot), but didn't the rest grow in places people already gathered for whatever reason (resources, transportation, general utility...)? But yeah, the locals always got the shitty end of the stick.

@@MrPossumeyes by the time the European empires started to establish colonies, the natives were being used to "guide" them in survival techniques. During that period things were relatively friendly, but when the USA started Manifest Destiny as a justification, things got slightly more "nice fertile lands you guys have cultivated for centuries...will it be trinkets or lead?"

@@Nipplator99999999999 it's time to stop with the lie that natives lived in peace with each other and the land before Europeans arrived. Natives went to war with each other, stole land, took slaves etc - the only difference is Europeans where better at it.

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I Have No Ruler And I Must Line

Americans will use anything but the metric system to measure things. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@@dominatusprimus5460 the video referenced it in terms of the size of London and Tokyo; this is simply a third example. Also more realistic in terms of actual visual reference instead of an abstract term of hectares.

@@jamesengland7461 those are not good comparisons though. Houston is 10,062mi² London is 611mi² and Tokyo is 5,419mi² Houston is basically exactly the same size.

@@youtubeSuckssNow that's my point

Wrong

Prison *

Shopping mall.

It is done by ex pats no Saudi will do any actual work they are all corrupt lazy and the oil money means none of them have any skills

Well if its the corrupt western world, ya bet how big their corruption is 🤣

That's probably the only real aspect of this fantastical nonsense.

Dubai was built quickly and more than lives up to expectations. My bets on that they can do it again.

Uh no. It's laughable. Why is half of it floating? Why to be cool of course, under that second artificial moon.

No, there is absolutely no reason for it to be floating as that area is completely empty

So instead of Santa Claus fitting thru a chimney it’s more feasible for the tooth fairy taking your tooth?

No need for it to be floating, regular ports are better, the Oxagon would just have better technology. There is nothing inherent in its design that makes it better.

I'm wondering about the conflict between massive amounts of seawater being used up in desalinization and the supposed ecological coral reef somewhere vaguely nearby.... The excessive salinity discharge from the desalinization process will kill that coral reef, and don't even get me started on the size of the sewage treatment plant(s) needed to process the discharge from the projected 9 million people who will somehow be lured into living in this thing.

There's a similar project going on in Durres, Albania. Please explain the controversies.

Ok - try this. It should be "The Cuboid".

Don't be pedantic. It can have as many sides as they like. 😂

Look for the people who are currently working on this project on YT and see how crazily huge this project is and the progress made already.. + They’ve always said things about new cities failing. I remember when they used to say Dubai is a failure or Chinese new cities are failing when in reality they’re the most successful projects ever.. And for the artificial moon thing it’s basically a carried mistranslation of a Satellite for the city but people like these love to say it as artificial moon to make the city look like a joke when in reality it’s a 500 billion city that is planned by the best consulting firms of the world..

@@knightara consulting firms are like lawyers. They’ll go along with any dumb idea as long as they get to keep charging.

All of these companies are just fleecing the taxpayers and investment firms or are just looking for clout. Essentially the same thing as Musk's goal of a Mars colony.

@@TheBooban if 1% of the plans succeed it will for sure be better than Sharm Alshaikh, Eilat, Hurghada and Aqaba which are just a couple of miles away and are very successful tourists destinations on the Red Sea.. Don’t be so ignorant..

​@knightara Unfortunately, the feasibility of the ideas is the same as any of mine, as in totally unfeasible and useless

"Welcome to the city of the future, where nothing can possibli go wrong."

@Haanz Vitesse. what do you mean by equality in what exactly? All religions are treated they same in Saudi Arabia unless if you want to enter Makkah and Madina the 2 holy mosques that’s the only 2 places that are prohibited for non-muslims.

@Haanz Vitesse. so you want the Saudi government to pay for foreigns same as their own citizens. Thats not gonna happen bro. At least school system and healthcare are free for all even foreigns, also there’s 0 income tax for all even foreigns too. Name one western country has the same system.

@UC8dFtmeWfHOY9oADu2Jgb-A so your case is only for jealousy reasons what a jerk just get a life. FYI nobody can share our wealth unless we say so.

@@1.Doubleyou That's Absolute not true, the only mosque prohibited for non-muslims is Makkah, its not prohibited by the religion, its prohibited by the government because the mosque is too crowde. But, no one will stop a non-muslim from entering Mecca.

@@basam1459 Wonder what happens when you try to open a bookstore in Mecca, you know with books like the bible or about the enlightment or Kant,real books, just like in London, where all those (princely) hypocrits go to in the summer? A Barnes and Noble with a rainbow flag.

Remember again what you said in this comment when this city is already built. Do you understand not far from it exist 5 well known big tourists cities. Eilat, Aqaba, Sharm Alshaikh, Taba, Hurghada. Where the best weather, best coral reefs, and amazing mountains and beaches located. You’re gonna feel embarrassed when it succeeds

Me too, but I think you're on the wrong channel for that.

They do I think if you want to make a utopic type city you should start slow and grow with need. But they alway are like there will be millions of people living here with in ten years. They never stop to think why would those people live there

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Yeah the US Congress spends that by printing dollars about every 15 minutes nowadays it seems. Don't you just love inflation?

It's called a pipe dream. This won't be sustainable. And damn it sounds borring to live there too. And not being able to centralize services this idea will fall apart quickly. And centralizing would force people to move far in a line stressing the rail over capacity.

@@AntimatePcCustom it’s already going well get wrecked

Thunderfoot just released his analysis. 14 trillion was a basic estimate.

Thus, it could be done

Considering current Russian aggression, I'd say the US military budget is money well spent.

Neom are building nothing other than a virtual presence online, Nadhmi is. joke, you can never build a new future by terrorising your staff

It's definitely happening. Investors need a place to invest, and the American economy is not looking too good. People don't trust our market after the sanctions, plus it's saturated. China is Commie, Russia is Commie.

Read the Book of Revelation. It's going to be nuked!

Haha "train" wreck because it has that one train!

What's left of the canal system up by the Delaware water gap is a nice walk. I don't know if it's part of the same system...?

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Id trust Finland or Norway or one of those countries that is run by women lol

LOL

They'll probably build some of it, and it'll end up with those Chinese cities that have a few dozen residents.

Sure you know someone, good story bro

@@bonefishgrill6382 what? Never met anyone who knows people before? Never been outside?

Did he also say its probably going to cost x10 times more? Lol

With controversial I hope he means stoopid, insane and utterly impossible. Even if they would find the money to built it as stated it would be a complete failure within weeks if not days and that is if you could actual people wanting to live in it. Not just the mega rich in the top levels but those doing the work at the bottom tiers. Never mind the utter shit show that would happen outside the line with all the roads outside needed to supply the city as well as get out the trash and waste.

naaahhhh, can't abuse or control as many people doing that

"'If it ain't broke, don't fix it?' You're talking out your ass!" -NEOM, probably

Lol

The majority of the country is sand desert that they don’t know what to do with. The areas that have mountains are already heavily populated because the elevation usually brings cooler climate and more rain

Soooo... Petra? A modern version?

Multiply that 500 billion by at least a factor of 20.

The US can easily afford to spend trillions. There's nothing to worry about.

You're not on reddit anymore pal.

@@GayFrogsTho - what happened?...... did the account get deleted? was he banned? hacked, maybe? were you following him on reddit? :)

US will be like that for sure considering suburban sprawl is going to bankrupt areas when the US Ponzi scheme finally collapses

Not even close. Floating anything, except ships and oil rigs, is massive waste.

Slave labor helps cheapen the building