David Bell
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We should stay out of nature's way, but yeah, it's who's doing it.
And again, it's clearly that they're just like, they started with like, he clearly someone who was like wall city.
That's cool.
Right.
And that's a great idea.
They went from there.
We may do a dedicated episode about this later because we didn't have time in this, but this is impossible.
The project is already run into terminal issues.
Like, it isβcost overflows are massive.
The kingdom's financial situation today is still not good because, againβ
Every effort to transition off of being entirely reliant on oil money has failed.
And they never really got over a lot of these central issues that were massive problems for the country when MBS took power.
Like they've been patching over them, but there's still problems.
And the goal was to get a bunch of foreign investment to make this thing possible.
Again, they were looking at $500 billion, and it's likely it'll cost way more than that.
If they were to actually finish this thing, they've dug a bunch of holes.
They've started construction.
It's never going to get built.
It's impossible.
They're starting with the conclusion and not getting there.