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Saudi Arabia predicts budget deficit as it funnels money into gigaprojects (www.ft.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tourism. The plan is tourism. These projects are to attract tourists to look at them

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah. They all seem hoping to do a Dubai, but there is no way that countries can run their economies on tourism and not expect their citizens to work in that economy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who the fuck wants to go to a desert theme park?

[–] ALavaPulsar 6 points 1 year ago

I mean that’s basically Las Vegas.