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minus-squaregodlessworm [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·edit-212 days agowtf were they doing? using people’s foreheads as hammers? how do you possibly kill that many workers?
minus-squareCloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·12 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-squarefox [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·12 days agoYeah, it’s such an absurdly high number I’m wondering if there isn’t a or involved somewhere in the reporting.
minus-squareBelly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·12 days 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-squarejackmaoist [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·12 days agoThey use indentured slave labor so they probably don’t care about safety.
minus-squarecassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·12 days agoWell you see, hierarchy in general and monarchy in particular are incredibly efficient.
50 billion already spent
wtf were they doing? using people’s foreheads as hammers? how do you possibly kill that many workers?
“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”
Yeah, it’s such an absurdly high number I’m wondering if there isn’t a
or 
involved somewhere in the reporting.
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.
They use indentured slave labor so they probably don’t care about safety.
Well you see, hierarchy in general and monarchy in particular are incredibly efficient.