Saudi Arabia's Biggest Megaproject Failures Uncovered
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You have a clean pair there, you say, which begs the question: Are you wearing dirty underpants?
Simon: 💩 on Saudi Arabia.
MBS: get my bone saw.
You didn't even mention the stalled tallest tower project in Riyadh.
How to laminate
@@CAP198462
someone from the embassy already responded with an invitation to visit (no joke) !
they go by the handle : @silardregos8111
you can see the comment below in the section ! 🤣
Honestly, the solar farm seems the best idea for their economy. The problem is they want a giant one instead of thousands of normal sized ones.
Saudi Arabia can produce a barrel of oil for around 5 dollars though. Their electricity is on average about 500% cheaper than the USA. And the USA has cheap power compared to most. I think this might be the craziest on the list. It's like Hawaii building lava factories. The stuff literally just comes out of the ground.
Casino Mecca is even crazier but this one is close.
@CharlieBam I think most of us will live to see SA’s cheap oil come to an end. They know it but they won’t admit it. That’s why they’re so keen on investing. When the easy money ends they will have to rely upon the TRILLIONS they are sitting on to provide.
Nothing lasts forever. That's why SA is trying its best to diverse its economy instead of completely depending on just oil, because if one day the oil market crashes, also SA's economy will go down with it.@@Carnutzjoe
@@CharlieBambuddy they have maybe 40 years of crude left wholesale
@@matthewwilkinson9704 sure
Bro, I'm not even Muslim. . . And the idea of turning Mecca, one of their holiest sites into a Las Vegas style destination. Sounds sooo offensive lol
That’s not real project it was an suggestion by a company and has refused.
It's already done, they have razed all the ancient buildings, even those visited by the prophet, and built golden skyscrapers instead.
@@aesma2522
Al Mahdi will arrive before 2030
And sex will be everywhere
@aesma2522 yes they have flattened the graves and stopped people doing tawaf around graves ALHAMDULILAH
@aesma2522 eather u are lying or u don't really live in saudi arabia
The places of the profet and the sahaba is preserved for visiters of mekka and madina can visit
Lol I would urge viewers not to skip the ad on this one, watching Simon awkwardly trying to keep a straight face while selling underwear is a treat.
Hahahahahah true
Brain blaze Simon is leaking into other channels and taking over gradually
*Or maybe not sooo liiittttLle*
😂😂
The best one was when Simon did his first Keeps ads, being a bald man selling male hair treatment 😂
@@ChineseKiwi The irony. 😂
Desert autocracies, ludicrous amounts of money, and extravagant monuments to mankind’s boundless arrogance…truly a match made in heaven.
😂 funny
Spot on @holyfordus.
Someday: we'll figure out our economy is FUBAR and it's asinine we pay so much to so few.
Welcome to the GCC.
What does the desert have to do with this? There are plenty of rich non desert countries too.
At least the reduced power output still exceeds the 1.21 Gigawatts needed for the Flux Capacitor.
There's no l in fux. . . 😏
Gonna be tough getting that on the back of a DeLorean. 😂
I have a funny feeling that the favourite computer game played in Saudi Royal family was Simcity.
as an avid sim city fan as a kid, they definitely did not because they would realize vanity projects don’t create a healthy city. the game was very difficult to make a city sustainable and profitable
lol. yep it's SimMecca. You just walk in circles around a big square.
That's Offensive.... You can't joke about that.@@Tazzspaz
Saudi Arabia can be perfectly summed up as "more money than brains"
Okay Mr. Perfect.
He probably likes drinking ethanol hence his name, I’m guessing he’s not so bright.
He is right @@jasonozzy8655
When I served in the US Army during the first Gulf War, we were temporarily housed in an entirely vacant modern city in Saudi Arabia, (one of the best billets ever!) allegedly built for the Bedouin who refused to live there...
Thank you for your service.
Well the Bedouin are traditional nomadic people, and border line minimalist. So kinda makes sense they didn't want it.
@@Nick-gv3siYour lie
In any city
@@q3q3q3q3
i kindly counsel you to upkeep a respectable level of demeanour , , even with those that you "might" disagree with .
much obliged 🌼
@@dynamo_spade See comments
Hate without reason
Greetings 🌹
i met a venture capitalist a few years ago. He was pursuing several projects and the one he discussed with me was to develop a "new" technologies. He outlined his business and I just laughed in his face. He's spent millions developing systems that were obsolete 10 years ago. Eventually the business went bust and god knows what he's doing today. Probably working on round things called wheels; revolutionary!
When I here anything about Saudi Arabi, I just think of these delusional rich people that have utterly NO idea about this thing called reality. Their arrogance and hubris is only exceeded by their stupidity. In brief, there is a reason monarchy is not the preferred form of government.
Bro, you need an autocorrect in your life.
You fooling yourself man
@@MMD_16-95 A well researched opinion about whatever it is, congrats! Statistically it's painfully obvious, authoritarian models seldom lead to success. People are dumb. Even groups of well trained professionals tend to make stupid mistakes. It's just unfair to expect any individual to do only slightly worse. It's all about narrowing the gap between dreams and reality. There are a few exceptions to this rule, and they are super famous for this very reason. Countless others are all around to provide topic for decades worth of such videos.
@@moayyadAKZ7936
Bro? You’re going to correct someone and use the stupid slang of “Bro?” Get real
Wow, such a useless comment.
Literally no useful criticism was given.
Just an unrelated story with a side of prejudice.
Biggest is not always the best, when it comes to electricity, it's best to bet on several smaller rather than one big, that only produces under specific conditions..
Right. Who needs power 24/7 anyways.
That solar farm is a good idea, although I wonder what the sandstorms will do to the sensitive electronics.
Honestly there's a hundred reasons as to why that actually wouldn't work. That's why no one has done it yet.
@@laynedoe3455 i guess you can’t always throw money at a problem.
@@twinnishnot sure if they would last out in the desert. Similar proposals have been made for the Sahara to provide electricity for most of Africa but it doesn’t logistically work (I think for electronics damage) but also if sand storms cover an area that large it’s unrealistic to get it all cleared before the next sandstorm. Can’t remember the video but I watched one a while back explaining why they can’t do it
@@twinnish Thats some serious dealing with to do, cleaning dust off solar panels of that size will be both expensive and time consuming.
Solar panels have special, expensive, extra clear glass with a 99% light transmission. What do you think that glass will look like after it’s been sand blasted? In the US, out west a small sand storm will take the paint off your car and frost the windows so you can’t see through them. Imagine the sand storms in that massive desert. One storm, all panels are ruined.
I can't believe Simon chopped himself up with a bonesaw then threw the chunks down a well, RIP fact boy
Its always the ppl u never suspect, he seemed so happy..
Looking at him, you'd never think he'd end it all in such a gruesome way...
Given just how much of Saudi Arabia is about as unusable desert as you can possibly get, turning some of it into solar power plants isn't necessarily the worst idea, theoretically. The problems start when you take that simple idea to clueless people, whose cash funds are exceeded only by their megalomania.
Its actually not unusable desert. A land can be in different ways growing crops and so on. Their land is the most useful because it gives them petrol
@@MuhammadSami-rk5ml Respectfully, not ALL of it, I venture. First, A lot of Saudi Arabia's area is desert, and only desert. Second, there are indications that SA's petroleum reserves are much MUCH lower than what is currently claimed.
That last may or may not be 100% true, but it is undeniable that SA's oil reserves, and the world's demand for them, are both very very finite things.
There can be other uses for what is currently a desert, absolutely, but building a linear city across it would not be my first choice. Or my second. Not even in the middle of the list, comes to that.
Saudi Arabia launched the world’s largest solar-power plant last february. They also have the largest dual-purpose desalination plant in the world.
Clueless people with infinite cash flow and the ability to hire the best talent Vs random youtuber commenting on megaproject from his mom's basement in the suburbs !!
Who will win ? VOTE NOW !!
@@MrLilRajjewhich one gave a loan to Musk to help him buy web site known at the time as Twitter ? I’d pick the other one.
when you have so much money, you gotta think up of ways to waste it...
Hence why they have junkyards of supercars.
Yet millions of people are still homeless n starving and suffering from medical issues cuz they don't have $$ to pay for treatment
:) I love humanity 😅😅
Lol that logic is so fucking retarded but sadly it's extremely common.
Like $44 underwear. 😐
Well! One MUST have a hobby! 😂
The only reason they planed the solar plant was to take panels away from serious use. It was always a delay tactic
evidently , they have the *most* to lose if the world ditched fuel energy to cleaner alternatives 😏
@@dynamo_spade And when the oil runs dry?
They have money that cannot be spent so foolishly anymore.
Saudi will quickly become third world in less than a decade when that happens.
and funny enough those nuclear power resources are all in the north. so yeah buy all the garbage solar you want.
@@dynamo_spadeIt’s not if it’s when. Then they will not have enough money to buy their own population off and the trouble will begin. There is another mob of religious nutters opposite them in Iran, waiting the chance to invade.
@@davidmontgomery1442 you wish to see it, don't you ?
200 gigawatts?!? That is enough to go Back to the Future 165 times!
Round trip?
I read that in Doc Brown's voice.
seawater desalinate agriculture irrigation
@@hashim64 irrigate instead of irrigation it would have flowed better
All of the money in the world and they still can’t find a way out of the 14th century…
They seem to have a Ministry for Starting Projects, but not a Ministry for Finishing Projects.
@@mb-3faze I have to admit I’ve been known to do this very same thing
14th century wasn't as bad as Saudi Arabia
@@darylb5564 Recommend a wife to fix that problem :)
It seems your the ones still living in the 14th century. not knowing anything about Saudi Arabia other than what’s repeated in your echo chambers but still thinking you’re able to make assumptions and pass judgement
They had to rename them Gigaprojects because.they found out someone was.using the Megaprojects name already!
This is what happens when you run your projects by hooking up your friends and people you like, instead of having a system based on merit.
You should do one on Sri Lanka’s fantasy “green city”. Talk about a failed mega project!
This GigaCity looks like something from Judge Dredd or Warhammer40k
This is what happens when as a leader you have access to loads of money and are not accountable to anyone else in society. Lots of crazy ideas happen with lots of wasted money
Im shocked the Saudi Binladen Group would have any human rights violations or issues with things crasing into buildings! If u cant trust them who can u trust.
Did you know that Saudi Arabia or the majority of Arabs have tribes and clans and the ending of the name of each family is the name of their ancestors’ tribe? If my name ends with Bin Laden, it does not mean that I am related to the Bin Laden Company. Only with the first ancestor of the family 2000 years ago or 1500 and each tribe there are about 100k people or more or less.
@@Meshari_ Yeah I was just making a joke. Sorry. I know it's like last name smith over there. But it's still funny!
@@stuffbinaboxdos Now it's funny after the dishonorable and tragic events of Binladen’s name.
@@Meshari_ I appreciate bringing information to a perceived low blow. That's how we stop hate.
@@stuffbinaboxdos It's all for love and respect. Greetings from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
I think a preplanned city like the last example would probably do a lot better in a country that people actually want to live in.
So saudi arabia.
@@Nawa11YT Immigration numbers for Saudi Arabia have been dropping rapidly for the last 10 years, so not really.
@Tzimisce Good, the country is full of expats.
Do you honestly think we want more foreigners here?
Also send me your source please.
@@Nawa11YT I dont think anyone wants to live there. A lot of poor Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Indians might because they have no other choice (and once there have literally no other choice), but I never heard of any Westener wanting to live there except if bribed with large salaries and even then they only stay for as long as needed, but as short as possible.
Thats just the obvious facts.
@abl7632 @abl7632 I have seen tons of people saying that they want to live here. Especially the nationalities you've mentioned.
They can't because we don't give citizenship.
That is good.
Regarding westerners, I also heard some of them expressing that they want to live here.
Are they the majority? I don't think so.
But those who wanted to stay embraced the religion/culture.
Which is very difficult for many of them to do, due to the vast differences between us. Hence, why the majority wouldn't want to live here.
Completing .1% of a gigaproject counts as a successful megaproject right?
Fine examples of more money, than sense 😂
You know that the projects are bad when Simon can't keep a straight face and breaks character.
They’re worse than he knows
Maybe they should’ve consulted this random youtuber instead of the hundreds of professional engineers
@@bander-Coolb The answer would be the same from both sources.
He obviously loves slagging off any 'giga' projects of vanity, but seems to take extra delight in highlighting those in Saudi. I have a hunch why, but there's no need to bring it up here.
@@JK_Clark Because vanity projects suck, and the Gulf Monarchies build them with slaves.
That's why, no ulterior motive.
The solar farm could have been designed with a wider aim, not just clean power, you could have individual panels, say 4 metres by 4 metres, but placed, perhaps 20 to 30 metres high in order to cool a large region by collecting perhaps 7 to 10% of incident solar radiation. The power generated could be used at least perhaps 50% to desalinate ocean water
What????
What would you do with all the brine ???
@@NewerSwagger-gp3hj the brine produced is an issue. But the fresh water and the cooling effect are surely worth the effort. Perhaps the brine could be disposed of in old mines - as long as it doesn't corrupt the water table
@@matgeezer2094 that's part of the problem....thé salt is going to migrate whithin the soil
@@NewerSwagger-gp3hj the salt is sodium and chlorine, perhaps uses could be found for the individual chemicals? They have economic value. Desalination is a very useful technology, my suggestion was really to have solar panels mounted perhaps 50 metres up, panels something like 5x5 metres, and so use the panels to provide shade, and so cool an area
To be honest Simon Sensei, if the Saudi Royals focused less on the kickback, a great deal of these mega blunders would have been noteworthy mega projects.
During my first week in al Khobar, Saudi, my roommate, who was also my interpreter/guide, took me to a shawarma place that was next to the burnt remains of a pizza joint, in the middle of nowhere behind a dozen used car “dealerships.” My certainty that I was about to be sold or killed was outmatched by the absolute best shawarma I’ve ever had in my life. It’s a weird country but I love it.
Saudi Arabia is one of the lowest crime rates in the world
@@CAP198462Question from the state that was behind the bombing of Al-Khobar Complex
@@CAP198462Saudi Arabia is one of the safest countries in the world, the crime rate is 0.80%, while the global crime rate is 7.60%
@@CAP198462Do you know the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the rape and torture of Iraqis?
@@CAP198462 The United States has killed tens of millions around the world in half a century and has waged more than thirty wars. Do you know this?
Do they make a sheath with a smaller pouch? Asking for a friend.
I'll buy some sheaths if we can get a episode of Simon in a pair and nothing else
🤔😜🙈
I wonder if they really want to diversify their economy or if all these projects are just a way to create jobs like what the Great New Deal was. They don't seem like they are really serious about changing.
All evidence points to a need to justify an unskilled and unqualified Royal family
I love that he says clean pair lol
Sounds like the same mindset that says that communisim is still a great idea even though it has always failed. It will work 'NEXT TIME' with just a different group of people running it.
I LOVE that the building SBG was constructing collapsed on September 11 of all days 🤣🤣
Loved the grin during the last second. Should've winked, too. This all seems to fit the old saying "More money than brains."
"Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
1 crane collapsing killed 118 people and injured 400 more. Wow.
'The Line' has got to be one of the most ridiculous mega projects ever proposed.
@@twinnish what's his opinion on it? does he think it's going to be possible?
We need a Side projects video on the Whistlerverse.
I'm not sure I'd go to Saudi Arabia if I were Simon.
You could cook an egg on his shiny head 😂
He is just a hater ....
@@ramifridhi4038as any decent human should be
I was just there. I have never met so many gay people.....and gayness is not allowed there.
“Good farms make for bad farmers” ; “Bad farms make for good farmers” -if you have too much you do not husband your resources and whims are thought of as plans. Saudi Arabia has too much without effort.
It’s called the ‘resource curse’. It works in a similar way to the ‘aid curse’.
I'm way partial to failed architecture to success in more dangerous mega power hobbies.
And then there is the Kingdom Tower projected to be 1,000 metres in height, taller than even the Burj Kalifa but work has stopped since March 2018 after some bankruptcies, embezzlement and criminal charges.
You ever notice that in Saudi Arabia nobody ever loses a hand from stealing gigantic amounts of money from these kind of things? They only seem to do that to petty thieves....
that's a private project it doesn't have to do with the country but a prince who was corrupt and stopped
A structural problem with monarchy: are activities of princes actually "private" or "government"?@@thehawker694
@@hbowman108Ever notice the last time you’ve heard of an actual amputation for punishment? Probably not, because it hasn’t happened in like 10 years…
"Giga-Project" soundsblike this channel's equivalent of an "Epic Blaze".
You know, Simon, if they had just stuck to the Original Trilogy for the hotel's theme instead of Last Jedi, it would probably be up and operating by now...
$44 for one pair of briefs? Thats like 2 6 packs of what i buy 😂😂😂
When you're Simon rich, you don't realize that $44 for one pair of briefs is expensive to the peasants.
Are they actually $44? Holy fuck. So to have a decent amount you'd need to spent over $500 on just your briefs. Who the hell spends $500 on briefs? Guess I'm not the clientele for that company anyway.
The Aramco Manifa project works well enough. Oil wells drilled on man made islands offshore and linked by roadways.
But how long last?
Building mega cities (or even normale cities) in places where there isn't fresh water is just stupid. Only way is to turn seawater into fresh water. And up the unwanted biproduct (salt) back in to the sea. Of course all done with burning cheap oil.😂
And that byproduct is actually harmful. "Wait, the oceans are already salty" people are thinking right now. Yes, but desalinisation creates so much salt that whereever you pour it back into the ocean the ecosystem just dies from salt poisoning.
Why cant the "unwanted biproduct" be turned into sea salt and sold?
@@santoshNarayana That would make the desalinisation more expensive. It requires additional facilities and work to turn the brine into consumable sea salt (and that is without considering the growing presence of microplastics). The cost of that additional work would not be recouped because the vast amounts of sea salt created would drive the price down to near zero. Packaging and shipping it would cost more than just putting it on a truck and dumping it in the desert (which would inevitably create some other problem in the future). The only way out of the trap would be if some new industrial process was developed that used sea salt as an input.
Saudi Arabia ambitions in architecture are similar to my dad's. He tried to fix the old wiring in the garage to install a backup generator for emergencies. My point is that both my Pops and Saudi Arabia were "Shocked" by the "current" of future challenges 😂😂😂
حدثنا عن انجازاتكم يا مرتزقه
يكفي ان السعودية دوله صناعية
@@hamod1034 😂😂😂 The only industry Saudi Arabia have created is Mass Outsourcing.
@@husseinalmashhadany
اوك تعاون خارخي قصدك طيب حدثنا عن صناعاتكم يا حسين يا مرتزقه
I think you’re confused between private projects and state projects.. Jeddah Tower, Kuday Hotel and other numerous projects are private so chances of them being stalled is high. On the other hand. NEOM, Diriyah Gate, and other projects are state projects which means they’re unlikley to get stalled.
It’s always personal when it comes to Saudi Arabia 😏
The hate and jealousy for their wealth and success is deep
Love your presentation and enthusiasm, it is contagious.
Kudai towers are not constructed by the Saudi government itself, it's a private company it shouldn't be mentioned here, same story with Jeddah tower “ the tallest in the world “
It’s in Saudi Arabia, no? Or is GM not a US car company?
@@rdspam well the video title says saudi arabia so shouldn't the country be accountable only for it's own projects ? why the country has to fund companies for projects they can't afford
That Sheath underwear look like they could manage to get a Giga projects all on their own with plenty of room for expansion 🤣
Best commercial on UA-cam - great job Simon!!
We have a saying in Saudi that best describes this video: The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.
وش يقولون ذول
They jut announced the Line city is now a the Dot city
I’m not a Muslim but my first thought was “ A casino at a holy site????”
The most boring one, no alcohol served.
Not a casino, casino vibe, the people didn't want flashy mega buildings that takes away from the visual feel of a holy place. That's why they stooped building it.
you know those money lenders, they can't get into heaven so on earth they at least want to loiter profitably in the vicinity of the temples!
Do people now only understand things literally, like IT engineers, which makes them insufferable bores?
@@moes3617 casino vibe is just as terrible. Salvation is joyful experience…. But not that joyful😂😂
The Middle East with its young and fairly well-educated population is poised to become a major economic power house. The country is undoubtedly changing. As an Arab expat, I find myself getting irritated by the way that the kingdom is often misrepresented by Western mainstream journalism and television news.
"They say a lot of projects in Saudi Arabia cannot be done. They're 'too ambitious , They can keep saying that and we can keep proving them wrong."
MBS
He should try a project to make his country a democracy.
@@BiggieTrismegistusno
@@Nawa11YT That's fine as long as he's willing to accept Saudi Arabia will never become a world leader in anything other than throwing money around on vulgar megaprojects.
@@BiggieTrismegistus yea nah.
We'll try our best to be the best.
@@Nawa11YT I'm sure you are but the repressive religious beliefs pushed by the government will hinder the country's economic potential.
I don't hate Saudi Arabia and want it fail despite my beliefs being antithetical to those of MBS and others. I'm sure the Saudi People are wonderful and I wish them the best. Saudi Arabia's oil wealth allows them to build megaprojects amongst other things and I don't think that's a bad thing per se. My point is that moving beyond merely being rich to becoming a dynamic economy like you see in the West and other places isn't going to happen if Saudi Arabia keep ps doing what it's doing. What I'm saying isn't hate or an attack but just things I have seen happens to countries that try to leap into global capitalism without the right culture.
Does anyone REALLY know how many channels Simon has now?🤔 I'll bet even google doesn't have a concrete answer
Has many megaprojects Saudi Arabia has finished?
Suddenly after Saudi joined hands with China, all geopolitical experts are predicting its downfall to scare the investors.
No one is scared of Saudi Arabia and China joining hands.
Even if some of the projects were a bit ambitious and were not built yet - you have to give credit to them for trying and building a lot of finished megaprojects :)
Yep building Burj Khalifa is an achievement for mankind. So what if poop trucks have to be ferried daily morning, coz cant have sewage lines.
Or building dumb cities on artificially created islands. Who doesnt a big wave to send back all the poop water back into the artificial island cove or its so much fun to see island sink and rise.
such as?
They live on sand….have not planned sceptic facilities….plan all you want but with basically slave labour….not hope…
@@DoOfuzmAXiM2030 uploading
@@DoOfuzmAXiM such as the failure of the US charging u taxes for everything 😂😂😂
I was thinking the Saudis took a page out the Soviet Union economic playbook. But it seems more likely, they just Xerox it a 100x.
No mention of the biggest Saudi Megaproject failure ever, the plan to make Saudi Arabia grow enough food so there would no need to import any food. Currently Saudi Arabia is almost entirely dependent on food to be imported.
Saudi owns vast lands in various countries in africa like some other gcc countries used to plant their needs nt ideal given sudan is one of them countries and now in civil war
There's also King Abdullah International Gardens, Jeddah Tower, and the 11 Stadiums. All either halted or cancelled.
Wish you went into more detail why their Economic City in Jeddah didn't work out.
I currently work in Saudi arabia and there is a lot of hype going around for new projects because some things in government management did change (the old team basically except for MBS). So there is a chance that Saudies might be a bit more productive this time around.
I'd also be super curious about the problems with KAEC. It seems like if the infrastructure is complete, there should be opportunity there.... Maybe populating the city and providing jobs would be a better use of funds than building The Line?
@@BWintJackHey Kevin. I remember seeing a youtube video subjectively discussing what you are looking for. However, KAEC is not fully a failure considering it still has the potential to succeed. It was recently approved to have separate economic governing rules, such as tax exemptions and lower % of job localization, which aim to attract investors. KAEC is one of the most beautiful and organized Saudi cities, however, needs economic attributes to thrive.
@@BWintJackya, some new factories are building there. It’s growing now.
Hey how is the Jizan oil refinery doing? is it up and running yet?
there's no "allegedly" when it comes to mbs murdering & dismemberment of JAMAL KHASHOGGI. to state otherwise is offensive to those of us who aren't psychopathic killers!
True, but I think Simon doesn't want to end up in a shady backroom like what happened to Khashoggi.
Let me guess, your country is honorable and have done nothing wrong at all, right?
A typical brainwashed comment influenced by the media.
It’s alleged, and u cant prove it
Was it proved? Nope. West does worse? Yes.
How does the sheat underware fare with morning wood?
Most people like to diss the Saudis for evil motives. I on the other hand would like to see it dissappear for good because their regime is behind 80% of the disasters in the middle east since the 50s.
The straight face breaking into a grin at the end is priceless!
Ironic that a country with one of the richest resources has no resource.
Some clear demonstrations when stupidity overshadows time-tested common sense. These are the inevitable outcomes. Remember the moral lessons from "The Emperor's Clothes."
0:32 world's largest solar power plant
3:44 end of sponsorship
5:35 Abruj Kudai
9:46 King Abdullah economic city
I spent years in KSA. It’s a graveyard of unfinished construction
Dubai did diversify properly away from oil and attract lots of big international comapnies. And they did it great. But they where also first in the middle East. So unless Saudi Arabia pays companies alot to relocate why should they?
I love how Simon can't help but laugh when explaining how reality hit eventually :-D
The amount of money is only surpassed by the amount of corruption. 😂
Saudi Arabia hopes to maintain high oul prices to fund these vanity mega projects in the hope they'll be able to wean their economy away from oil dependence
Hi @sideprojects! I really enjoyed your video; but I was a bit disappointed at the KAEC segment especially since you captured about 20% of the city development and you left out many aspects of it (i.e. the golf course, Rixos resort, Lucid factory, special economic zone, 5 residential district, 2 labor camps and many more) I have been working in KAEC for 10 years and I represent CEO office. It would be my pleasure to showcase the City for you
Yea labour camps sounds about right. Local speciality I guess.
Sounds like the way I plan my SimCities lol
Who would go and live in a country with so many restrictions, like stepping back in time.
Some folks like tradition, others don't. You're always welcome to live in rat, poop, and drug infested San Francisco. 🐀💩💉💊
"you can't dance naked here on July and you won't be able to transition your child by removing the genitals"
madmesmith5187: "how restrictive. It's the 21st century already"
Someone who respects order and structure and not this degenerate free-for-all the West has become.
Gigaprojects?
Nice idea, but I doubt much will be able to best Megaprojects Simon! 😅
Though if you pull it off, i will retract this comment
The irony of trying to transition away from oil when that's the only source of your income.
The Line is going to be the biggest Fail yet and going to enjoy the debacle.
7:56 Not even gonna mention the irony?
Simon!
How insightful of you.
We would love to hear more about the perceived failings of our Kingdom in order to help avoid problems in the future..
Come and see us here at our embassy next Monday morning at 9 to discuss fees we can pay you for your input. Please bring ID and come by yourself. We will have you out in an hour or so.
Kind regards,
The embassy.
simon ;
a ) come by yourself ! ( no cams to authenticate , or friends to ensure you safety )
b ) we already chose the time & date . . . so no need to check if it suits you . . .
c ) i already mentioned (shamelessly) that we will bribe you for your "input" and publicly stated that we will pay all your fees to come over so we may influence you to say the most beautiful & positive things about us 🤡 would you like a ferrari or lamborghini ? !
finally , , two more points ;
1 ) i only mentioned the points above because i am the latest stupid employee , , and i need to impress my bosses . . . and the only way i can think of is : to publicly offer to bribe you 🤪 because we uncultured saudiased people think we can buy anything (and/or) anyone !
2 ) i have nooo link whatsoever to our affiliate consulate in istanbil 😝
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It’s hilarious to me hearing Simon shorten the princes name to MBS 😂
Wonderful case study on the results of centralized economic planning.
hard to sell tourism when you think of half the human population as lesser..
It breaks my heart that the archeology I am most interested in seeing resides in countries that hate me based on politics and/or gender, and that that reality will probably never change in my lifetime.
Not to mention the non-human population.
It is important to acknowledge that 95% of the video contains misleading information. While I understand your intention to connect with the viewers through hidden messages and comments, it is crucial to prioritize factual accuracy in your research and content creation. Furthermore, I would advise you to diversify your sources of information. Relying solely on local sources from [your country] may limit your understanding of the broader picture. Exploring a wider range of perspectives can enable you to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the subject matter at hand.
Fahad, Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦💚
Hubris begets the fall.
Had they just tamed their ambition just one bit, they could probably achieve a lot more
00:15 😆 Off of the tip of the bat a baseball reference that sailed over Simon's head into the bleachers! i 💜 it !:-)
Maybe if they had a parliamentary government below the monarch, they would have a functional society by now
Functional society that’s confused by gender and fails to define the word “woman”?. No thanks
What tells you we don't have a functional society?
Hi Simon!!! I love you and your team ❤❤
I subscribe to all of your channels and even some that you no longer host, like VisualPolitik!
But one thing you'll never see me do. Is carry my groceries five blocks how many trips does that take. Lol
The first ad I actually watched 🤣
It's all nice and dandy to talk about Saudi's mega project failures, but no one is talking about England's potholes problems. I urge Mr. Whistler to do an side-project episode on pothole fixing failures in England. I was in London a few months ago and drove my rental from one pothole to another. Its nice to see you sneering on another country's failure, whereas, we, the visitors, get our vacations ruined in your country because of potholes.