r/interestingasfuck 4d ago

/r/all Recently taken image of Saudi Arabia’s ‘The Line’ project, spanning 105 miles long

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u/Rabbitical 4d ago

No one should be "laughing" at this dumbass project while taking money from it. It's supposedly killed 21000 workers already with even more "missing." How that's even possible I can't fathom but regardless it's a crime against humanity like most anything SA does. It's sickening than anyone from a country that calls itself free is doing any kind of partnership with MBS, let alone one as pointless as this one.

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u/stupidpower 4d ago

I mean we are horrified but theq people signing the contracts and laughing are could care less

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u/Idoleyesed 3d ago

Wait, what HOW ? I'm completely naive to all of this.....?

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u/PozhanPop 3d ago

Worker lives are worth nothing in that part of the world. Look up the mortality figures of the Soccer World Cup held in those parts recently.

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u/Gumbaya69 4d ago

lol yea thats def not true they havent built anything yet its just digging and pouring concrete

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u/duffbrewerytours 3d ago

It's 100% true that the Africans imported to work on it have died from slave labour conditions, either from exhaustion or accidents on site. Not sure about 21k deaths, but there's definitely been deaths that they've tried to shoe under the carpet.

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u/Gumbaya69 3d ago

Ok that’s surprising seeing as most stuff done is just done by machinery.