Author Topic: Neom: Saudis Answer to Konza City  (Read 1211 times)

Offline vooke

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Neom: Saudis Answer to Konza City
« on: July 27, 2019, 01:12:51 PM »
No idea what MbS is smoking but he must be a big fan of Felon Musk to imagine flying taxis in the middle of the desert

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/26/8931389/saudi-arabia-mega-city-neom-plans-futuristic-dystopian-ai-robot-fake-moon
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Re: Neom: Saudis Answer to Konza City
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2019, 07:03:41 PM »
As far as I know there is no Konza Technocity outside of beautiful models and graphical presentations. It's a white elephant. Nay, a ghost elephant, never broke the ground.

Saudi is 90% oil money and huge capital flight to Dubai,  Qatar and the west. The Qatar blockade bolstered FDI into UAE and significant liquidity in Saudi banks.

MBS has some good ideas when he is not busy boxing shadows and purging everyone. The Aramco privatization and energy plans are great. That and this Neom parts of grand Vision 2030 need to roll out while Trump and the Rethugs are around to back him. KSA faces a real economic threat in the evolution into green energy. They are just too ignorant to take serious notice. Mwarabu is barely less backward than Mwafrika.
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