21,000 workers have died so far while working on that ridiculous Line city in Saudi Arabia. Remember that next time you see a fancy sponsored ad for it. - ThreadSky

jobium.bsky.social • 119 days ago

21,000 workers have died so far while working on that ridiculous Line city in Saudi Arabia. Remember that next time you see a fancy sponsored ad for it.

Reposted from Prof Chris Jackson

Kudos to New Civil Engineer for continuing to report on *all* aspects of the supposedly super-glossy #NEOM development…

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Comments

nafnlaus.bsky.social•118 days ago

*How*? How do you even *achieve* that in the modern era? That's like the sort of number of deaths you expect to see from working on massive works in the ancient world.

You expect some deaths on a project of this scale in the middle of the desert, but that's an insane number.

cv-danes.com•118 days ago

21k dead. Over 100k missing.

matthopeart.bsky.social•119 days ago

I yelled at some people taking sponsorships to whitewash this whole atrocity and it’s maddening

brooklynkid53bskys.bsky.social•119 days ago

@seismatters.bsky.social
21,000 deaths ????

TOTAL BULLSHIT YOU LIARS

https://www.newsweek.com/workers-killed-saudi-megaprojects-construction-1977972

cakeylaura.bsky.social•119 days ago

The way the whole world just glosses over this, including the people normally red hot on worker’s rights, is profoundly depressing. Money and fear at work.

oranmath.bsky.social•119 days ago

This thing already shouldn’t exist because of its environmental impact, particularly on migratory birds. That was already bad enough. This is nightmarish. I’m so upset that they are actually going forward with this monstrosity

alert74.bsky.social•119 days ago

No ads - all I've seen are YT videos explaining why this was and is a terrible idea. Clearly Mister Bone Saw and I run in different circles.

georgegawler.bsky.social•118 days ago

It's like Peter the Great killing tens of thousands whilst building Saint Petersburg - another vanity project from an autocrat pursuing 'modernisation'. Modern Saudi appears to have all the human rights and compassion of 18th Century Russia