Model City Monday 8/1/22
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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Neom Liveability Model - A New Way to Live
The world's largest ski and water sports resort. They'll make an artificial lake and use artificial snow. Canal pools along every street so you can swim to work. A beach made of crushed marble which will shine like silver. Whatever! If this was some billionaires passion project, I'd be fine with it. But the fact is, this is the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, squandering public money. Not just renewable tax receipts but the country's accumulated oil windfall. This is the money that should be going to the Saudi people having a future. And instead, Muhammad bin Salman is spending it on playing some kind of demented desert version of SimCity.
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