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How in the name of Allah is the nominal cost of mosque around the Kaaba $100 billion? That is bonkers


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Worth 5 state of the art nuclear power plants apparently...

Petrodollars, that's how.

I suspect this number is inflated for the purpose of showing off the kingdom's or the religion's wealth and power.

To me and I assume most Westerners it looks like an egregious excess while poverty is rampant. At least space projects produce trickle-down technology, but this is just busy-work.

It's literally a building, nothing justifies that cost... where are the death ray lasers? Where is the re-atomizer? Makes no sense, the figure must be wrong

Busy work feeds people.

So does farming.

Farming jobs provide poverty like lifestyles, building jobs provide relatively middle class lifestyles. You need both to keep a modern society going.

You can't eat a building.

The the cousin of the brother in law of some minor prince has to get his piece of the pie.

If you’re ever in New York, check out the Tweed courthouse, which was built in the 1880s. The total cost was $10.5B 2020 dollars.


Tammany Hall did corruption better than anybody. Robert Moses would blush.

It’s worth reading the line items from that construction. Carpenters getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars - multiple millions now - for a couple days of work. Enough carpeting ordered to cover whole parks several times.


> The total cost was $10.5B 2020 dollars.

Where did you get that number? Wikipedia has the costs around 11-13 million, also consistent with this https://www1.nyc.gov/site/designcommission/public-programs/t..., or $304 million in 2019 dollars.


shit I guess inflation this year really WAS crazy haha!

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