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>>50582656
>Incubator cities like that are always in places that people want to live and SA sucks camel dicks to live in and always will.
The architectural plan for this city is vastly different though, it's going to be vertical, with all buildings completely enclosed in an outer shell and fully air conditioned inside. It might not be that bad so long as you don't need to go outside the shell too often.

https://www.neom.com/en-us/newsroom/hrh-announces-theline-designs

>It might make a decent amount of sense as a manufacturing hub exploiting cheap energy and cheap low-skill labor from Africa or ME to work assembly lines. Saudis are born slavers with zero morals, so they're perfectly suited to run that sort of sleazy operation. Wave a bunch of cash at desperately poor people, stuff em 20 deep in barracks next to the factories, confiscate their passports. Cranks out widgets, and any workers that complain to western journalists get tossed off the factory roof.

I'd be okay with this, so long as they're relegated to the lower levels out of sight or in different adjacent hubs or Lines. The cognitive elite will occupy the upper levels. I think they're planning on building a university within the initial Line and want to attract top talent from around the world.

https://www.neom.com/en-us/newsroom/neom-appoints-university-president