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minus-squaregodlessworm [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44·edit-22 days agowtf were they doing? using people’s foreheads as hammers? how do you possibly kill that many workers?
minus-squarejackmaoist [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 day agoThey use indentured slave labor so they probably don’t care about safety.
minus-squareBelly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·1 day agoI’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.
minus-squareCloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·2 days ago“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”
minus-squarecassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 day agoWell you see, hierarchy in general and monarchy in particular are incredibly efficient.
minus-squarefox [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·2 days agoYeah, it’s such an absurdly high number I’m wondering if there isn’t a or involved somewhere in the reporting.
50 billion already spent
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.