I was trying to find the story of the old man they murdered because he didn’t want to leave his tribal homelands. I believe they built the airport where his family had lived for generations
I’d guess lack of safety on job sites combined with overwork. Having people do 16+ hour days without hard hats or scaffolding is going to cause a lot of accidents.
50 billion already spent
November 2024, 21,000 workers had been killed building Neom
I was trying to find the story of the old man they murdered because he didn’t want to leave his tribal homelands. I believe they built the airport where his family had lived for generations
wtf were they doing? using people’s foreheads as hammers? how do you possibly kill that many workers?
They use indentured slave labor so they probably don’t care about safety.
I’d guess lack of safety on job sites combined with overwork. Having people do 16+ hour days without hard hats or scaffolding is going to cause a lot of accidents.
“So I read the Chinese have a famous great wall that has lasted centuries, I want Neom to be exactly like that”
“Sir, the laborers that died building it were entombed inside the wall and it was constructed on and off for 2500 years”
“Excellent. We’ll do that”
Well you see, hierarchy in general and monarchy in particular are incredibly efficient.
Yeah, it’s such an absurdly high number I’m wondering if there isn’t a
or 
involved somewhere in the reporting.
Are you shitting me? That much more than even the death of migrant workers for the Qatar world cup
Yeah and the others sentenced to death for resisting eviction