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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?

If 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.

Oh, so the purpose of this thing is political.

I 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.

Its 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.

That’s too scary, what if the product doesn’t find market fit? Let’s just build the complete product first with VC money.

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