The haters said I couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters

This is why deciding who rules a country based on heredity is such a bad idea

It gets worse. The trams were evaluated not on how much they accomplished but by how much money they spent. And the guy in charge of overseeing all the foreign experts would just yell and threaten them & so they would quit. Mismanaged from the top.

I like how he’s currently crashing the oil market, not because that will actually accomplish his goal of driving competitors under to bring about 100+ oil, but because the country will be insolvent when that doesn’t happen, and trying to force it only makes it worse, faster.

Visionary scale, but financial sustainability separates dreams from reality. MENA's mega-projects need UAE-style grounded planning for success.

Bloomberg did a really funny piece a year or two ago interviewing a bunch of the western designers and consultants on the project, to a t they were like “ya none of this is ever gonna get built but it’s fun and I barely have to work and im getting paid $400k so fuck it”

“wild idea” = madman’s fantasy made possible only by the most extreme & imbalanced social conditions imaginable