Egypt's New Capital is an Ozymandian Nightmare

[@AdamSomething]

The Arabic subtitles are now up, thanks for those who made the effort! They asked to remain anonymous for their own safety.

[@belalsherif553]

El sisi is not a dictator. He got chosen and still supported by his poeple. And he got a nearly dead country up and running.

[@Bastiolo48]

@@belalsherif553 The fact he got democratically elected, does not mean he is not a dictator. The fact that the Egyptian people are in favour of him also does not mean he is not a dictator. His actions decide whether he is a dictator. Does he take decisions based on the well-being of his people or based on his own delusions of grandeur? Does he respect the limitations of his presidential position or is he trying to reform the government so that he has more ruling power? Does he engage in nepotism? These are but a few questions you could pose that can lead to the conclusion of whether he is a dictator. To me, it definitely seems like he is.

[@mortenrl1946]

@@Bastiolo48 Absolute power defines a dictator. So while I agree that one can be elected, the rest of your criticisms apply to all politicians.

[@Bastiolo48]

@@mortenrl1946 Yes, but the other factors I mentioned (nepotism, displays of supremacy and government reforms to increase presidential power) are part of the progress to obtain that absolute power. When we observe these behaviours, we can see a dictator in the making.

[@shaise]

Ceausescu was a great man who managed to keep the country out of the hands of both the russians and the americans. Paid out foreign debt, built hydroelectrical and nuclear plants, protected forests etc. What we have now we have because of him. So what if they build that shit remember most people who come to Egypt come to see the outrageous shit your ancestors build 2000+ years ago

[@au1317]

When they want a 20-lane highway just for military parades, that's a red flag the size of the world's biggest flagpole

[@Kanoly]

10/10

[@thomaskositzki9424]

That entire project is just a dick-waving contest. Immature beyond believe.

[@محمدفتحىعمر-ل4ق]

I am Egyptian at first . Our country will built more 30 cities . More than 100 m live on delta and close the Nile and people built on fertile soil so the president ordered no more built on fertile so we built near desert . This is only solution to solve overpopulation in Egypt. Don't listen to this man he is against the regime .

[@Max_Griswald]

I was literally going to mention that the world's largest flagpole was being built just to handle to the size of the red flag this project gives to the citizens of Egypt.

[@j.g.3293]

Homie should just sack up, go full Khufu, and build THEE biggest pyramid. That would at least be kinda funny

[@DoctorCVC]

As an american, hearing city designers intentionally want to design “american style suburbs” is eldritch insanity.

[@whiteknightcat]

Thank you for using the word "eldritch".

[@aubreymorgan9763]

it really is! the American and in most part Canadian city/urban/suburban system is horrible to live in. you're so far away from things so you need transportation which causes street congestion and air/noise pollution. it dosen't seem truly sustainable, look at older areas of middle east, Europe, and the east where houses are near shops, near food, near family and those areas are relatively the same for hundreds to thousands of years; you don't need a car you can safely walk or bike . Theres no real sense of community with 'American' design.

[@pyromaniac709]

That shows how much they want to be americans

[@mikepalmer1971]

Most of us despise living in cities and will not do it. I would rather live away from everything than be in an urban hellscape.

[@DoctorCVC]

@@mikepalmer1971 I mean the thing is, it’s not about your preference. There are just various multifaceted problems to designing a society around suburban sprawl. As a contained example, the inflated distances between important sites, necessitating cars as the primary mode of transportation, causes various issues. There are environmental problems from excessive/inefficient energy use of regular car driving, and excessive development/destruction of wild habitats to create wider, less dense communities. There are increased public health problems due to a decreased emphasis on walking/cycling as a form of transportation vs the car, not to mention the simple fact that transportation via car has a higher mortality rate than public transport. The excessive space also leads to a an unaffordable cost of living for many due to the higher cost of building and operating public utilities like water or electricity over a longer mass of land, this before considering factors like the larger, more expensive housing often built on these areas, with more inefficient heating/air conditioning among other utilities. Wanting some privacy away from society is an understandable individual choice, but the reality is this planet is not big enough to sustain every human currently on it to have such large amounts of space and resources to themselves. For a majority of people on the planet, urban living of some sort is not a matter of preference, it’s just a necessary reality.

[@ghastlyghandi4301]

This is kinda like when the old pharaohs of Egypt would build a new capital city in a useless patch of desert every time a new dynasty came into power, allegedly because of important reasons like defence or trade or whatever, but its actually so they can ignore the original capitals. Edit: I noticed that a lot of people like to call out how I worded this comment originally and how they seem to think that this has only happened once in history, so I’m going to address that here for people who care. There were many times in Egypt’s history when a new dynasty would come into power, they’d build a new city (or at least convert the site of a town or small city) and call it their new capital. For example during the rule of the twelfth dynasty in the Middle Kingdom period they changed the capital of Egypt from Thebes to the city of Itjtawy, which was founded by the first pharaoh of the twelfth dynasty King Amenemhat I. Another good example of this phenomena happened when the Hyksos invaded and settled northern Egypt, founding the new capital of avaris, another city founded in a patch of desert just to be the seat of a few pharaohs. And of course this also happened loads of other times until the Persians invaded, got kicked out, put themselves back in charge, then Alexander the Great came around and built the city of Alexandria where many of the future rulers of Egypt will sit. Idk why people think this is a rare occurrence, it’s not like this is something that’s entirely unprecedented, many other countries like China and Germany and India also had this happen. If you’re going to make statements like that then go and learn the history first.

[@Monarch_Prime]

Dictactors love playing king

[@Cyndayn]

That's actually the perfect analogy, the reasons behind it are the same. The NAC is built in order to flex the regime's power, status and wealth (just like all the pharaoh's grand monuments), it's built in a new location with more administrative oversight in order to provide more oversight and root out resistance/corruption from the old regime, and lastly the NAC is built in such a way to provide more security for the new regime.

[@agustinlespada4426]

The plan of the egyptians was to build some kind of legitimazi that can give power to the new dynasty so it can endure in the region. (Mostly to secure the elites and funcionaries support) Especially in moments of great turmoil and crisis.The egiptians in that cultural context have more sense building citys then this people xd

[@mikecostanza303]

@@Monarch_Prime Dictators love playing god, lul.

[@renlevy411]

That actually what happened. But all Pharaoh fail at erasing history.

[@hosamfikry2924]

2023 update from Egypt: He ran out of foreign currency now and couldn't finish his cartoon project. Interestingly, he is blaming the people at the moment. We're fu*ked 😂

[@paulmahoney7619]

Well, perhaps his government will fall now that it’s running out of money with a half-finished white elephant and more unrest.

[@davidcooper8711]

Maybe it's because all the contractors, construction materials and labour are from China Inc. Tofu dregs. The Saudi's chose Bechtel as the prime contractor for NEOM. That ought to tell you everything you need to know.

[@hosamfikry2924]

@@davidcooper8711 that's irrelevant and too specific. He is just an incompetent totalitarian president making wrong decisions all the time.

[@Canonlaw2]

The leadership in Egypt seems similar to the leadership in Turkey, hopefully we can both throw our dictators out of power asap

[@hosamfikry2924]

@@Canonlaw2 at least Turkey produces and exports a lot of products. We're wayyyyyy more fu*ked here in Egypt. Any change in politics wouldn't be able to fight the army in dominating the economy for decades.

[@Beaddu]

There was a Economist here in Egypt that used to go on air in popular shows and talk about problems in Egypt and actually suggest solutions to them. He even suggested solutions to almost every problem the country had bit apparently he spoke too much that he was *killed*.

[@jimmyjames9296]

Who ?

[@jimmyjames9296]

Who ?

[@yeshuasage3724]

Name?

[@Beaddu]

Salah Goda صلاح جودة

[@karimelupus]

In Mexico, when people like that die, we say that they "got suicided".

[@AyubuKK]

At least Egypt’s leader is making the old pharaohs proud. They also loved building biggly big vanity projects in the desert.

[@scytheseven9173]

Hey, at least the old vanity projects also served as a sort of jobs program outside the growing season (no, the pyramids weren't built by slaves)

[@dunkendohnuts5841]

@@scytheseven9173 yep they also buried workers who died during the construction in tomb-memorials near the pyramids

[@zyavoosvawleilte1308]

Man, it is rude to throw Abu SImbel, a huge teple with buildt aligned with the stars to whatever this cocaine Germania is this

[@ReaperCH90]

Well, the Pyramids at least became tousands of years later a massive income source with tourism, so it was a slow burning investment which 300 generations later pays off. I have my doubt the new capital will ever attractive anyone to visit Egypt.

[@insu_na]

On the other hand: The pyramids lasted for thousands of years. I give this new capital a decade if there's a revolution and maybe 3 decades if there's no revolution

[@scout8145]

Fining poor people for repairing their homes and then condemning the buildings is truly next-level. Solidarity to every single Egyptian who is getting shafted by this bullsht.

[@ForelliBoy]

the worst part is that the "alternative" is basically the taliban

[@justcommenting4981]

Trying to beat the speed record for getting removed from power.

[@Blaze86420]

@@ForelliBoy No it isn't, this is just an excuse Westerners make up to make themselves feel guilt-free for supporting the tyrant building this monstrosity.

[@GrigRP]

@@ForelliBoy The alternative was the first democratically elected leader in the history of Egypt. I guess democracy doesn't matter when DC doesn't like the outcome.

[@Ghost-tv1yg]

@@GrigRP for them democracy doesn't count if they don't control him

[@leapfrogger2198]

Egypt: "We have the biggest flagpole in the world!" Average RV Retailer in the US: "Challenge accepted"

[@RalphColmar]

You need to spead the word in the RV Retailer community, this will be a competition worth watching ;-)

[@JoeOvercoat]

Tell them we will let them fly confederate flag on the anniversary of Appomattox every year and then just stand back…

[@hashbrownz1999]

Could you imagine how funny it'd be if some nobody RV salesman in "f*ck all" USA deliberately outdid Egypt's dicktator flagpole?

[@mindblower8774]

Egyptian here: we have food shortages, high inflation rates, high unemployment, underfunded healthcare and education, and high rate of corruption.then mr el sisi wants to build a fancy expensive capital for the rich assholes to live far away from our impoverished population. Nice video Adam.

[@rohankishibe8259]

Prophecy of Islam, When you see barefoot, naked, destitute shepherds competing in constructing tall buildings.” وَأَنْ تَرَى الْحُفَاةَ الْعُرَاةَ الْعَالَةَ رِعَاءَ الشَّاءِ يَتَطَاوَلُونَ فِي الْبِنَاءِ Arab citizens suffering while arab leaders competing who's gonna build the highest buildings, we're truly at the end times

[@Monarch_Prime]

Just like in Indonesia then, our government is doing the exact same thing, in the middle of our largest rainforest, on the most sparsely populated island. The upper bourgeois tried building their own "city of dreams" a while back, which failed spectacularly, and now our government is going to finish the job, except we have even less money than egypt, bigger problems than egypt, and a much larger population than egypt. They're not even planning on building something like that giant obelisk you guys are getting. They want to build a giant GLASS BIRD.

[@tylerclayton6081]

It’s time for Egypt to westernize. Overthrow your government. You deserve better. Don’t you guys want to get the prosperity places like Poland and the Baltic countries got after they westernized?

[@Monarch_Prime]

@@tylerclayton6081 the second world is "westernizing" in general. We have access to internet, increases in prosperity and wealth, unprecedented economic growth, but we have several problems we share, notably religious fanatics (christians in the philippines, buddhists in myanmar, muslims here in indo and there in egypt)

[@Monarch_Prime]

@@tylerclayton6081 we also have a copious amount of political authoritarianism that refuses to liberalize either because the people are too uneducated or too dogmatically blind. Overthrowing our governments would be an even worse plan, considering how easily a revolution can go wrong.

[@Zeyad7Tarek]

Unfortunately, as an Egyptian, we never see people publicly criticizing this dumbass project. The media is controlled by the government and if you even post a criticism about this on your personal social media account and it got enough exposure, they're eventually going to take you down and you will essentially disappear. Thank you for making this video.

[@jackholman5008]

And that's why your country will never succeed

[@abo7medd435]

Will egypt ever revolt again?

[@abo7medd435]

@@MariamShehab البلد قاعدة تروح و انتي عايزة الناس تسكت؟ ازاي حنعيش بكرا لو متكلمناش النهارده؟

[@phosspatharios9680]

This city looks like a megalomaniacal version of Brazil's capital, Brasília, which is also a planned city. If this city is really structured like Brasília, then I'm so sorry for you egyptians. Brasília is not only a bad place to live compared to other major cities in Brazil, it has a very inefficient transport system because of the dumb way the roads and blocks were designed and the cost of living is astronomical. And the city was built by poor workers who could never afford even a square meter of land in the city, and they were so poorly paid they couldn't travel back to where they came from, so they settled all around the "beautiful work of art", creating the Satellite Cities (one of which I live in) where the poorly designed roads and inefficient public transport creates a daily commuting nightmare twice a day.

[@abo7medd435]

@@phosspatharios9680 this city is a big dunk from the tyrranical elite on the people of egypt,the city is pointless and the economy is going to hell because of it(+corruption and massive economic mismanagement),people dont want to speak up because their scared but im hopeful,the day people wake up and take their right,i will be right there with them

[@kamilsoltan2021]

Dude you are the first to critisize this dumbass project. Seriously, thank you. As a half Egyptian, It is nice that somebody actually did the math instead of saying "BIG BUILDINGS = BIG COOL"

[@andressotil4671]

Ikr I've seen so many people say it's an impressive project that will bring prestige to the Egyptian people. As an architect, I burst out laughing when I found out the sheer vanity of the project (specially the phallic park design) and that someone wanted to make Dubai 2.0 but without the insane oil wealth

[@محمودالنينجا]

Keep living abroad you don't know anything about our problems

[@renlevy411]

@@fuerstmetternich1997 Dude this is vanity project. Watch the video.

[@محمودالنينجا]

@@fuerstmetternich1997 Absolutely man At least they are trying and building People wil find a way to look bad at anything

[@endianAphones]

@@fuerstmetternich1997 when I'm traveling I try to see the local culture and have a feel about how it is to live in there, but maybe it's just me.

[@desertbloomke]

As an African and Architecture student this makes me realize that some African countries may be in a phase of 'wanting to speed up development, but not tackling the problems that DO matter and instead going for flashy developments at the cost of the less fortunate citizens or ALL of the regular citizens'... and my country is one of them🤦‍♀️. I empathise with the citizens negatively affected by these developments. I also have seriously been ruminating over this question, 'What are our leaders' priorities??!' Because it seems it's not the general citizens and their welfare.☹️

[@eggballo4490]

Cairo doesn't even have trams anymore, the last line closed in 2019. The Heliopolis tram network was far beyond repair.

[@moneyobsessed]

Poor people problems, no? (Egyptian officials)

[@dennispickard7743]

money obsessed i used to work in Egypt - I’m surprised anything works

[@Newciouss]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/goqYeWhtltyqhcU Finally it's here YES.

[@macalister8881]

Yes they had quite a few bad train disasters i saw many vids of train wrecks , lot of dead peeps .. i better stop slagging my goverment as things are so much better here ...

[@TheUlquiorraCifer]

@@macalister8881 It's when people stop "slagging" their government, that it can become like that.

[@painfulsilence316]

The worst part of these projects is that when the working classes say "why don't you pay us better? provide security? healthcare? help us make the country a better place for everyone?", the response is always "who's gonna pay for it??". But when the rich and powerful want to build stuff like this, using public funds is patriotic.

[@MA_KA_PA_TIE]

But honest question. Who is going to pay for it. Better security, healthcare, and better pay all require alot of money. Where does it come from? None of those things are money generators like reducing the cost of establishing new industries. The things you mentuoned are all socialist money pits that don't generate income.

[@kooale3252]

@@MA_KA_PA_TIE The taxes pay for it. Tax the rich and stop government spending on useless projects. Make better economic decisions and the money will come easily. The people should be the one that reap the benefits of a good economy.

[@painfulsilence316]

@@MA_KA_PA_TIE So? Food is a money pit, it generates no income for me, it only keeps me alive. Healthcare generates no income for me, it only keeps me alive. Safer cities and roads generate no income for me either. But I would happily pay more money so I *dont* have to choose between a million dollar ambulance ride or walking to the hospital. I would gladly pay more money so we could have more effective crime prevention. And I happily pay money for roads so I can travel between cities without having to pay a toll on every new road. Also, you are completely ignoring the fact that health care and defense spending *do* generate income and contribute to the economy. They provides jobs which pay well. The developments that come out of those industries can be applied to other areas as well, so they provide additional benefits. Finally, don't throw around words like "Socialist" when you clearly have a very macro, simplistic idea of how economies work and what their purpose are.

[@krishp1104]

@@MA_KA_PA_TIE The taxes the people pay for? Who do you think is building the world's biggest red flag

[@astuteanansi4935]

@@MA_KA_PA_TIE No. Not honest question. That is about as dishonest a question as possible. If you have 4.5 billion dollars to throw away on the world's biggest something, you have enough money to let the people not starve, you just don't *want* to

[@Flamme-Sanabi]

Egypt's leaders might as well be cartoon villains with what they do.

[@sionenjoyer9746]

@its Time No one gives a fuck

[@akgarada]

It is true. Though they are closer to Scopydo villains than they are to Ozmandizes.

[@radfix1172]

Wait until you see the whole new capital covered with a large picture of him. Very cartoony

[@cattibingo]

"Egypt has elected their new prime minister, Skeletor"

[@KasumiRINA]

I mean, when I was little I watched the Prince of Egypt. Actual Egypt leaders being cartoon villains...

[@MrKockabilly]

This Egyptian idiocy is still a thousand times more sane than Saudi's The Line.

[@AmySavage6]

Seeing how the Egyptian government has complained about not affording to feed their people due to increased food prices I think I can spot one place where they could save the currency for the imports...

[@FNLNFNLN]

hey aren't whining about food prices so they can feed their people, they're whining about food prices so that Western countries will send them foreign aid that the dictator and his buddies can pocket to enrich themselves with, and Western countries, fully knowing this, will send that aid so that when the Western countries need Egypt's support with something, Egypt will be more likely to comply. Isn't geopolitics fun?

[@SylversVolpe]

Honestly, it wouldn't matter. If they hadn't built this travesty of a city, they'd steal that money, anyway. It's not that the Egyptian gov spends frivolously, it's that they steal from the people to enrich themselves and maintain their dictatorship.

[@zacablaster]

They could also stop trying to abuse the global economic system via deflationary monetary policy- just vibe and maintain a stability but NO, but that would require folds in the grey matter to pull off.

[@nfrandom007]

The rains are not blessed down in Africa

[@h78j.2]

none of this is built for the masriyeen (Egyptians in Arabic), it's built for the Egyptians

[@knighty2465]

As pointed out by many locals when I lived in Egypt: They built new cairo, 6th October city and all the other new cities to get away from the poor people but in each city they needed low wage long hour employment for all the social services (shops, busses, trains, taxis etc) so had to make cheap, poor quality housing but then found there were lots of poor people in their city... so they made a new city to get away from them running into the same problem One wonders what's going to happen to this new city when they need workers for all this half baked infrastructure and shops.

[@damp8277]

Wow. That's such a disconnection from reality.... Sad to read this

[@singularity6192]

What are you talking about? 6th of October city is mostly middle class factory workers, it has few "rich people"

[@notleviathan855]

An easier solution to this would be class zoning. A section of the city is low priced and low quality, ONLY affordable to the poor/middle class working families, in the middle can be a rather big park, or city district where urban shops can be, and even some high rise buildings. Finally, split that off by a large park, and then place the rich housing that's a gated community. Only affordable to the rich, and the only way in or out, are multiple gates. Connect the two areas with a metro system, that's fairly ass because only poor people are going to use it, and have stops going from the poor housing area, to the city center, and then a nice 10-15 minute walk away from the rich housing. You can also place alot of the crucial city infrastructure like legal buildings, police stations, and fire stations, closer to the rich side simply to make sure that they're taken care of first compared to the lower income people. I've actually done this in City Skylines, and it's worked rather well if you want to be a fucking asshole. The 'slums' if that's what you want to call that, can be close together and tight, cars won't be needed as much, and the rich neighborhoods can be designed much like American ones because on a map they look pretty, but in reality they fucking suck. The rich will be surrounded by nice gates, an almost private HUGE park, and close to any crucial infrastructure for them. While the poor on their side of the city, are left to essentially rot, with no way to ACTUALLY leave because they can't afford it. Bonus points if housing at first is cheap, but you slowly raise the price every 3-4 years making it impossible for the next generation of workers to afford vehicles to move out of your city.

[@kerbonaut2059]

Wow it's almost like capitalism requires the labor of the working class

[@DarDarBinks1986]

Why doesn't the proletariat simply eat the bourgeoisie and turn Egypt communist instead?

[@MarcosThompson]

It's uncannily similar to what they did here in Brazil when they moved the capital from Rio and created Brasília. A mega structure in the middle of nowhere to house all the federal government. On the upside, they've created superblocks as residential infrastructure. You should make a video about Brasília, by the way. Feel free to reach out to me if you need information. I'll gladly help you out.

[@genericscout5408]

isn't Rio just covered in crime? Having criminals roaming your streets and killing your people randomly isn't a safe place to grow up in. Not too surprising that they'd wanna leave the mess they made.

[@Turisteiro291]

@@genericscout5408 you missed the time frame by a few centuries. Also, the criminals roaming the steets of Rio are the Businessmen and politicians drug traffickers. Neither inside the favelas nor inside the zona sul are where crimes occur, it's in the transition of both.

[@AzureKite]

@@genericscout5408 Rio isn't Grand Theft Auto, there aren't any more criminals roaming the streets and killing people randomly than anywhere else in the world.

[@rizqmadani8529]

he prolly wont make a video about it since he kinda hates the middle east only, he didnt even make a video about china's ghost cities, the worst offender of this "idealistic city" syndrome

[@genericscout5408]

@@AzureKite 2021, there were a total of 4653 shootings registered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 485 in New York. It's 10x as dangerous but yeah that's not GTA levels of violence.

[@mahmoudalaa4914]

i am 100% sure every Egyptian citizen who watched this video wants to share it but we r afraid of being arrested☠☠

[@BlueBedouin]

Yep..

[@artistaroundtheblock2047]

Geez that’s unjust 😢

[@TastyMeat8675]

Proceeds to comment on the video using your name……

[@real_ninja3932]

@@TastyMeat8675 it isn't social media and whatever no police are watching youtube comments

[@TastyMeat8675]

@@real_ninja3932if they’re scouring Twitter but don’t care at all about KZbin? Shut up stop making stupid excuses for people being idiots on the internet

[@adamcuthbert4383]

It would seem the Egyptian dictator has been influenced by one of my favorite demotivator posters: "Hundreds of years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove... But the world may be different because I did something so bafflingly crazy that my ruins become a tourist attraction."

[@genericscout5408]

well actually what car you drove would matter if it was innovative and unique, like say the Model-T. If you didn't contribute to history then yes making a tourist attraction is a legacy. The other building that has no proper plumbing has a self aggrandizing monument saying it's the technology of the modern era.

[@vex_4138]

How is he a dictator?

[@BombaJead]

@@genericscout5408 Kek, no model-t or any car for that matter will solve your urban planning problems in America.

[@DwarfElvishDiplomacy]

Ever visited Bukkarest?

[@GamesFromSpace]

Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair at the economic damage my dick swinging public works projects caused.

[@katie-st8nx]

Why not make the largest water purification center in the world? Impressive and it might actually help Egyptians

[@MoReal2]

This new city is closer to the Nile...

[@yashagrawal88]

Anything large is harmful in my understanding. Even large solar power plants and large dams are harmful and unsustainable. It is better to have decentralized things. So decentralized small water management systems would be better.

[@rolloutthebarrel]

That would also benefit the poor, we can’t have that

[@rolloutthebarrel]

@@yashagrawal88 There’s a moderate approach where you can have systems that are large medium and small that all complement each other to create synergy

[@muhammadezzat7400]

Just do a little search about Egypt's efforts in the water sector in the past 8 years, you'll be stunned. This video is totally dumb and has ZERO scientific way of analyzing the object of interest.

[@cristi724]

Egypt is keeping it old school. Really really really old school. Minus the part where they're a prosperous pillar of civilisation.

[@marseldagistani1989]

They need some Civility, Roman style

[@cattibingo]

Might as well keep it extra old school and build the whole thing with slave labor

[@ChocolateHabanero22]

@@cattibingo That is pretty much going to happen. With the serfs making $127 a month....yeah, that's slave labour.

[@Skylancer727]

Ironically the origins of civilized life still has yet to get over it's hubris and realize there are actually better ways of doing things. Well if my ancestors were able to make a fancy pyramid and build a city around it every time the poor started moving in, good idea, we'll do the same. 👉👉

[@KasumiRINA]

@@cattibingo pyramids were built with contract workers. Egypt had slaves, but they didn't rely on them as much as Greeks or Romans, but thanks to stereotypes we associate slavery with Egyptians, and not with people who had it way worse in Europe.

[@khalid-salah-salem]

Thanks Adam. As Egyptians, no one dare criticize the system or his individual figures. Seeing this video is a release. Thanks 🤍

[@TastyMeat8675]

“No one dares to criticize the system. Now let me quick post a comment praising someone criticizing it to see if I can get some quick likes.” - you

[@khalid-salah-salem]

@@TastyMeat8675 exactly 💯

[@Geojoe677]

It’s insane knowing that Walt Disney made a prototype city (EPCOT) that was more eco-friendly, less car centric and designed better than most cities in the 60’s and almost all modern cities of now and somehow an entire government can’t design a better city than a prototype that a company CEO came up with randomly on a flight to Florida

[@planetary-rendez-vous]

Now I'm interested

[@joshuanoon4070]

This sounds interesting. Do you have a link?

[@lol-ih1tl]

Walt Disney was super conservative, so it kinda made sense for him to design a more traditional city instead of a then-modern car-centric city.

[@blackosprey2219]

Walt was idealistic and wantedto leave his mark on the world by defining its very structure forever. It was still a sort of ego-stroking, but his thought was "they'll remember me if I make something perfect" rather than "HURR DURR BIG BUILDING"

[@blackosprey2219]

@@joshuanoon4070 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qny8douggtF-gbM This is a pretty good vid about it.

[@Gaivs]

I was recently in Egypt and car-centric doesn't even begin to describe that country, especially Cairo. There were highways with 4+ lanes in each direction everywhere, no underpass or traffic lights or any way for pedestrians to walk anywhere. We wanted to walk around and see the sights for ourselves, but that was a very stressful experience... When people are used to that, it is not odd that they will recreate it in the next capital, but damn no need to create anything better...

[@memerman916]

I have taken a look at death in Egypt and in USA and the rates per population are about the same.

[@meero5823]

@@memerman916 any statistics from Egypt is taken with grain of salt Egypt is absolute chaos And when i lived there i saw multiple ppl get hit by cars when trying to cross the road There is no functioning system And no traffic laws

[@rileyneyman9789]

@@memerman916 12 per 100,000 in us. 42 per 100,000 in egypt. yeah not really the same

[@memerman916]

@@rileyneyman9789 yes, check it now, I understood him to say 12k deaths in accidents,

[@teslashark]

Imagine Adel Emam stuck in one of these fuckhuge boxes. Terrorism and meatballs 2.

[@dthewave9466]

As an exile egpytian/2nd generation emigrant born in the late 80s, I visited the city together with my father (who also lives abroad). Our reactions couldn't be more different. Since he witnessed a stagnating country with corrupt elites over all of his life, he is amazed by the actual happening of things. I however, share your point. The pure power architecture is absolutely on par with late 1930s architecture á la Speer in Germany.

[@BenNeill]

Even that is being kind. It's the McMansion version of Germania. Crass and cheaply built.

[@RisingFlag100]

Yeah but the germans never made their ideal city.

[@InfiniteDeckhand]

@@RisingFlag100 Yeah, but only because they lost the war.

[@ramr7051]

Can't blame your father for seeing things that way; makes total sense. Similar things happen in Latin America - elites run countries for decades and decades and nothing improves, nothing changes.

[@RisingFlag100]

@@InfiniteDeckhand Yeah I know

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

True that regarding the flagpole. I mean if you look at the top 6 before Egypt took the top spot, the tallest flagpoles are in Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, North Korea, Iran, and Turkmenistan...all dictatorships in some shape or form (Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy, but that's just a fancier dictatorship). And it gets better, Azerbaijan will now have an even TALLER flagpole. The last flagpole was 162 m/531 feet but it was dismantled in 2017 because the flag being ripped by the wind many times. With help from Turkey, they'll have the second tallest flagpole at 191 m/627 feet, beating Saudi Arabia's 171 m/561 feet. Also, they're building an urban park just to own Central Park? Bruh, Central Park isn't even the biggest urban park. That title goes to Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town, South Africa with over 74,000 acres

[@Rootiga]

No ones ever heard of that place in South Africa

[@lunariousmoon]

@@Rootiga because its not consistently shoved down our thoats

[@JeffreyBenzodiazepines]

Why does every "dictatorship" always have to be either not white, has tons of oil and natural resources or both : 🤔

[@JeffreyBenzodiazepines]

@@disneymore7941 Oh and they happen to be rich in natural resources and not aligned with the US, they used to blame it on communism back in the day 😉

[@TupocalypseShakur]

@@lunariousmoon as someone who lives in southern Africa i can say that isn't true, but that's mostly because Table mountain is the first thing you see when you approach Cape town

[@para_logic]

Hey Adam Something. I am an architecture student and honestly, this video and the Dubai one are superb critical analyses. I almost want to send them to my History & Theory of Urban Planning professor. But I do have to say this; most of your videos are mainly focused on the analysis of bad examples ("why X is bad", "Y is a nightmare", etc.). I think it would be good to create some videos about e.g. urban planning projects that were 100% or in part successes.

[@Swordphobic]

Try the "not just bikes" channel for "positive" examples.

[@myghkl]

Here's a positive one of Adam's about the benefits of commie blocks: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5asqYirqq-Lbbs While most of his vids launch with a negative angle on some kind of innovation, all that I've watched direct the viewer to positive alternatives that exist somewhere. Also, as the implementation of good urban planning concepts are being perverted or brushed aside by narcissistic authoritarians all over the world, it seems appropriate if the balance of Adam's critiques is on the negative side.

[@Igottthedaft]

@@Swordphobic Not Just Bikes is great.

[@iliakatster]

His video on superblocks is very positive

[@rabarber9610]

He can’t because he’s a cynic. Also he’s from Hungary and doesn’t have to look far for bad examples.

[@alexroselle]

Wow, I’ve heard it said about other countries before, but the saying that “most countries have militaries, but Egypt is a military with a country” has never seemed more true.

[@death_parade]

They say this about Pakistan, never knew they said this about Egypt as well.

[@puraLusa]

@@death_parade i was gonna write that 👍

[@Rahel_Rashid]

It's a full on police state. You can't even exchange money without ID of some sort!

[@puraLusa]

@@sadeksama5057 if u could choose which regime/ government sistem would it be?

[@puraLusa]

@@sadeksama5057 very acurate analisis. I live in a country semi neo-colonize and I don't mind at all. It's a semi-republican democracy and a lot of people really don't care as a big portion doesn't vote by choice.

[@ulrichspencer]

One of the most alarming things in here is making the military entirely separate from the rest of society. One key objective of dictatorships is to separate the military from the rest of society. This is to achieve two things: 1) so they enjoy special privileges that will make them want to maintain the current regime so as to maintain their special privileges, and 2) so they feel wholly disconnected and distinct from the "common" folk, so they are much more willing to use force against their own people. Turns out, drawing your military from common, everyday people makes them much less likely to want to kill common, everyday people. But creating a distinct, privileged military social class makes them much more willing to kill or oppress commoners.

[@0g0mogosepikworld31]

No? What? No! I don't know which country you are from but in some parts of the world militaries are a separate and distinct political establishment. They wield political power and they launch coups. They are by all means states within states. And using force against their own people is just another tool to get their way

[@puraLusa]

Don't think so, a lot of very bloody generals were from and lived among the common people.

[@ulrichspencer]

@@0g0mogosepikworld31 Well, that's exactly what I mean. It's a lot easier to wield the military against the people when the military is wholly separate and distinct and privileged from the common people. When the military is comprised of the common folk, like in most western democracies, it's members are much less inclined to kill and/or oppress their own people. I have some friends from Bangladesh who describe how the military there is its own social class, highly privileged and with their own special schools and neighborhoods they live in. It is precisely that separation I'm talking about that makes it easier to wield violence against the common citizenry.

[@0g0mogosepikworld31]

@@ulrichspencer the military is seperate and is distinct becausr it's the military. that military caste forms and I don't know why it does that. there can be several theories as to why that happens. it might because the military has lots of educated young people who have political aspirations or it might be because it is seen by the people as prestigious leading to a superiority mentality the reason is irrelevant and the end is the same: army becomes a political institute and that political institute does it's bidding sometimes with pen and sometimes with sword

[@Metalhead979]

@@0g0mogosepikworld31 yeah the military is usually seen as very prestigious

[@CaptOrbit]

The American military headquarters is a Pentagon yes? Yes. And a pentagon has five sides correct? Yes sir. I want our complex to have eight, make it a full-on octagon. And make it magnitudes bigger than their Pentagon. But sir, the Pentagon is enormous already... Bigger! With eight sides! Sir, our military is a fraction of the size of the United States military. We really don't need a... BIGGER!!!

[@lookwhostaking6700]

The last one was so wrong , Egypt's military has been in the top 10 for centuries lol

[@KD10Conqueror]

​​​@@lookwhostaking6700 Still a fraction of the size of the US's.

[@lookwhostaking6700]

@@KD10Conqueror size? U really think size is the biggest indicator here, do u guys know anything about politics

[@Gemarald]

This feels genuinely like the Endgame or Magnum Opus of Adam Something's urban planning videos, he was *made for this.* There's subarbs, ridiculously tall syscrapers, roads that are car centric, it's in the desert, and OF COURSE there even is an insanely expensive Monorail with no trains or other forms of public transportation in sight, with the fact it's run by a Dicktator. The only thing left is Elon Musk giving some dumb invention a go here and genuinely everything is checked off. But that's just what i see.

[@Pryvyd9]

Maybe Adam is secretly governing the world just to generate more content for his videos.

[@mohammedayan4058]

Wait till you see neom

[@Rony_Mady]

There is a train, I think this video has some points but it is over exaggerating

[@edwiinandresmosqueramarulanda]

he really got to check his bingo card in this one

[@allanjmcpherson]

@@Rony_Mady In what ways is it exaggerating?

[@ポスターピクセル]

Crossing the road in Cairo is like a Metal Gear Rising quick-time event.

[@AverageUsernames]

Nah, more like telltale story quick time event

[@h78j.2]

I was chased onto a 4 lane road in Cairo by a guard dog guarding a "private garage" under an open bridge. as an Egyptian, I apologize profusely for modern Egypt's existence.

[@Baca279]

@@h78j.2 why you are apologizing for foreign strangers on the internet instead of the actual citizinas who suffer daily cuz of that

[@ポスターピクセル]

STOP THAT CAR RAIDEN

[@h78j.2]

@@Baca279 it was a universal apology, directed mainly to the مصريين and everyone else who has to confusedly watch what's going on. كسم إللي حاصل فينا و كسم المنظر للي شايف من برة

[@ravenouself4181]

I have been calling out how bad for Egypt's water situation this thing will be for a very long time. It feels nice to finally be validated. Fun Fact: All that cash could have been spent on desalination plants and thus reduce Egypt's overreliance on the Nile.

[@ahmadsiso2]

Egypt has been building and investing a lot of money in water desalination plants in the past couple of years.But the population is increasing at an enormous pace so they are not enough.

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

Giving everyone free condoms would be a good policy move.

[@Tugela60]

Desalination plants are not a realistic solution for a people heavy energy poor country.

[@mrcombustiblelemon2902]

​@@Tugela60 isn't Egypt like 70% desert? sounds like some solar farms could solve that. somebody get Elon Musk on the phone!

[@cherifmorsi]

Or to tear down the Renaissance dam.... damn it!!

[@edl6398]

Fantastic video as usual. Anyone who has visited Egypt has seen the crumbling infrastructure of Cairo, ruined roads, traffic nightmares and air pollution. This is a society that still uses mules as transport outside major cities. The Nile is shrinking due to climate change so this is ludicrous and laughable. I can’t imagine the rage the people of Cairo must feel. Feed this dictator to the crocodiles in the Nile. That’s all he’s good for.

[@LO-dm6uf]

The Nile is not shrinking because of climate change, if anything the Nile should be flooding by climate change. However the opposite is happening and it may dry up because of a dam that Ethiopia constructed which is very problematic and can affect the Nile stream at all the countries north of Ethiopia

[@edl6398]

@@LO-dm6uf “The Nile River, and its fertile delta, could be destroyed by climate change, experts warn. Droughts across Africa are draining the river at its source, prompting the UN to warn that the Nile could shrink by up to 70% before 2100, threatening farms and families that depend on it for irrigation. On Egypt’s northern coast, rising seas are creeping up on the Nile Delta, salinating the once arable land and destroying crops. As the water continues to rise, experts fear that thousands of acres of farmland could be ruined.” That’s according to the UN so you aren’t correct.

[@TimothyCHenderson]

What's interesting is that whenever I've played City's Skylines and have gotten to the point where money just floods in and you start to make giant urban projects like these, they never turn out looking interesting of functioning particularly well. It's always the original core of my city that I keep coming back to and updating/improving as the organic spread is much more appealing and useful.

[@qwopiretyu]

Hopefully 30 years from now skylines enjoyers like you are in charge of countries/projects

[@PosterityIslesNews]

@@qwopiretyu hopefully the professional ones not the ones that use money cheats

[@lonestarr1490]

@@PosterityIslesNews Nah, even the ones using money cheats would be fine, for the money system in Cities:Skylines isn't anywhere near realistic anyway. The issues regarding traffic and livability are way more crucial and everyone gets to face them, regardless of whether they use cheats or not.

[@PosterityIslesNews]

@@lonestarr1490 yeah but as mentioned in this video, the egyptian government can't even *afford* any of the big big business buildings, their entire country is practically in shambles

[@jayhill2193]

While I thoroughly enjoyed Cities: Skylines myself, in it's core it sadly is not to different from Sim City in that it only knows zoning. Unless you really want to paint pixels with these zones, you will never have a true organic mixture of residences and commercial/office space. It's the perfect system to recreate the American way of building vast soul crushing pits of despair, not for building cities one would like to live in.

[@allama.]

As an Egyptian I can say that most of us hate and make fun of this "new capital". So much money was spent on it while most Egyptian can't even afford food, housing, and health. They built the biggest chandelier in the world cuz big things are cool and that's how a country is considered progressive. It's not even the same case like UAE where they have so much money that they don't know that to do with, in our case WE ARE BROKE and in deep dept to everyone around the globe But big building sounds cool so the elites can look down on us while we beg for scraps and maybe they might be generous enough to throw some leftovers at us. Egypt is the epitome of when an idiot fascist tries to speed run corruption

[@ramr7051]

Have things ever been good on Egypt? Were previous governments better?

[@cmsacademy1673]

I loved a year in Alexandria and I totally agree with your comment. The country is broke, nothing works without bakshish (tips) and they borrowed money to build this non sense?!

[@radfix1172]

@@ramr7051 well they weren't better but they weren't worse than what we are now

[@christian2i]

Why is this idiotic? What does being broke have to do with it? Anything they can actually build, they can afford. Ruling class need a fortress (desert & distance is the fortification). Sounds reasonable given recent history of the people being a bit... insubordinate. I don't like it, but it's reasonable from their stand point. What does poverty relief give them? Are there checks and balances? Not even liberal democracy takes into account lower class political interests

[@averagefatefan]

​@@christian2i unfortunately, not everything that is built can be afforded. Countries can be in serious amounts of debt (which Egypt is), and therefore cannot really afford a project of this scale. But the debt is ignored, and the project continues regardless. As for serving the interests of the lower classes, while a lot of countries with more liberal ideologies may still primarily serve the interests of the rich, it is usually at least more challenging for them to flagrantly spend the country's money in such a way. Generally it is easier to hold people accountable, and there are more expectations for them to help with urban issues, the kind of which the video describes are being ignored in Cairo. While the same issues may be present in these more liberal countries, you will generally find that they are of a lesser scale.

[@HunterKutz]

The freaking Octagon 🤣. “Screw your 5 sided tiny Pentagon America. Get an 8 sided polygon like true Chad!”

[@euansmith3699]

Not just one Octagon; but EIGHT of them! 🤪

[@redmoon383]

Bruh just build a hexagon. Be like the bee.

[@HunterKutz]

@@redmoon383 The bestagon the hexagon!

[@dercooney]

egypt: calls their new military HQ the octagon also egypt: builds 10 of them

[@augustokonrad3572]

And the pentagon of the, uh, Pentagon, actually serves a purpose. It helps to make the structure more stable against bombings if there was a war or attack at Washignton. It worked because only one part was damaged at 9/11

[@Itried20takennames]

Having worked in the federal US government in DC, and as just my opinion as a private citizen and not speaking for any agency, most US federal buildings were definitely “nice, but not TOO nice….because that is taxpayer money.” Some offices I worked in were downright dumpy (which was fine with me…because tax payer money) with only the headquarters being nicer or historic.

[@retf8977]

Finally someone is speaking about this. My country's economy is going down the drain and the poverty line is increasing day by day, national debt is horrifying and all because the government doesn't want to be next to the stinky poor people. As an Egyptian, i am truly grateful for this comment. 8:45 You summed it up perfectly. The military is truly the ruling class in Egypt, a state within a state, and it has forever been that way, from the days of the pharaohs to the mamluks to the so called "Republic"

[@holbvgbbbbkfz]

Am Kenyan my country is basically Chinese property Who do you owe the most

[@Makyura43]

As someone who visits Egypt once every 2 years , my thought on why this new city has been built is same as yours - because rich didn't want to be bothered by the poor. Shame really for all its flaws I really like Egypt and its people. Greeting from Serbia

[@timber72]

Egypt's story is not over. Egypt will rise again to become a critical player on the world stage.

[@AnoNymous-dh2sv]

Then why don't you do anything anymore? Do they control the social media now?

[@TheTrueBazooka]

@@AnoNymous-dh2sv as an Egyptian myself, they kinda do. Many public figures who just tried opening their mouths got arrested just because they talked bad about the government and for those who are living abroad, they go for their first degree family members (father/mother/brother). They don't want any change in the system. They don't want the people to get educated and know their rights are being violated on daily basis and they are basically living an inhumane life. All under the false excuse of "we have economical problems and the government doesn't have enough money". Truly sad to say this but it's the reality. I really hope that things change but unfortunately there isn't any sign for that.

[@harrytodhunter5078]

“Desert Ceausescu“ is a wonderful phrase. I think all global dictators should be named in relation to what style of ceausescu they are.

[@kajmak64bit76]

Oh god imagine American president made in that style lol

[@torresalex]

What would Erdogan be? The Anatolian Ceausescu? Or Orban. The "Magyar Ceausescu"

[@jannepeltonen2036]

The Nile of Thought, the Genius of the Dunes?

[@uberalles9797]

@@torresalex orban is somewhat based at least

[@seapeajones]

Thank you! I was looking for the word so I could get the punchline

[@rsp7029]

Egypt's economy is essentially closed to most of the population and is in the hands of the military. So the military, the few hundred thousand wealthy citizens, and the political class (all the same people anyways) are building a place from which they can rule without interference from the pesky humans upon whom their luxurious lives are built. This is the geography of the 21st century.

That's not geography of the 21st century. It was always like this man :/

[@nathaniellindner313]

On the plus side, when the elites all live in a tower in the desert, all the rebels have to do is turn off the water to them and wait...

@@nathaniellindner313 I hate when youtube shadow bans comments or replies, they do it with around 10% 😑 i only see your comment because it's on my mailbox... its for everyone invincible

[@viktorstojanovic9007]

@ I can't see his comment

@@viktorstojanovic9007 I know. I only can see it, because I have it in Mail, but you should see the 5 on the comment logo, that shows you that there is a hidden comment

[@johnladuke6475]

Yeah, that's worth subscribing. Not only pointing out the flaws in the project, but taking a strip off of people who are cheerleaders for insane garbage like this without bothering to consider what they actually support.

[@NatsumiMichi]

Every time I feel like my city-planning skills are hitting a new low in Cities Skylines, I just remind myself that cities like these exist in the real world. The one thing we've got in common is that irresistible urge to smack big-ass arterial roads everywhere because cars go brrrr.

[@notastone4832]

driving is fun when you are not stuck in bumper to bumper traffic..

[@vaiyt]

Cities Skylines, and to a much greater extent SimCity, work on the assumption that car infrastructure is the solution to traffic. Walkability confers no benefits to your city in the former, and is outright impossible in the latter.

[@NatsumiMichi]

@@vaiyt It might be the TMPE mod but in CS, offering alt. options to commuters actually does have huge impact on car traffic. And not just mass transit, having a lot of pedestrian roads and bike lanes actually makes the sims choose to walk or cycle to the destination instead of hopping into cars. It works so well that it's even exploitable through parks to make big bucks off of them. It's not a fix-all, but not offering these options in the city is just a guaranteed way of having 1% traffic flow and cars stuck in a line so long it goes off the map.

[@vaiyt]

@@NatsumiMichi to be fair, it's been a whilesince i last touched either game

[@zelder1371]

@@vaiyt mass transit + green city dlc makes it possible to have a very non car based city in cities skylines

[@elise3455]

I used to love watching channels like the B1M cause "ooh look! big new skyscraper out in the desert!" without ever really thinking about urban planning. Now I realize how lucky I am to live in a city which prioritizes people over cars and vanity projects. Thank you for bringing attention to this! You and Not just Bikes are awesome.

[@tristanridley1601]

There are SO MANY of them. And so many are utter trash. I keep having to tell KZbin to stop showing them to me. I subscribe to engineering channels too so I guess the algorithm can't grasp the difference...

[@mt.penguinmonster4144]

How do so many channels seemingly forget that buildings live in a society?

[@plasticballs]

Honestly I just like big things with big numbers attached.

[@kkon5ti]

Fortunately the B1M is mostly changing for the positive

[@dunkey7739]

B1M just shows and tells you how the building is created. Not the societal consequences. I don’t really see an issue with that

[@Alexlalpaca]

The most outrageous of all, they didn't even build a new pyramid

[@whitewall2253]

IKR, whats up with that? they had a golden opportunity for a new greater pyramid and they decided to build a skyscraper instead, bitches.

[@uberalles9797]

The elite class of pharaohs was aryan

[@ASTROPLANET13]

@@uberalles9797 *citation needed*

[@grahamturner2640]

Lmao. It would be funny if they also built the world’s largest pyramid.

[@evannibbe9375]

That’s what the new “tomb of the unknown soldier” is based on (the name being a rip-off of the American monument).

[@ThorDude]

So funny because if they actually helped the lower class, they could make this project come true with actual support from the people.

[@Michalosnup]

I love the higway next to the park. It will be really rellaxing place, where you can breathe the fumes and hear roaring motors of thousand of cars. I would love to study there.

[@puraLusa]

😂😂😂

[@Kr0noZ]

well it's 6 times as large as central park, just walk in a little and you'll find some piece and quiet

[@philipsalama8083]

@@Kr0noZ The difference is that Central Park has depth. If you go to the centre, you're quite far from the roads. It also has a great deal of tree cover. This new Cairo park, however, is long but thin - you can only go so far towards the center before you're headed back onto the road again. Plus, a bunch of the center is artificial lakes, pushing you out further toward the edge.

[@crassiewassie8354]

I like how they advertise it as having shade when you can see from the aerial view there's a single foot path and like 20 water features. and the foot path is only lightly shaded on one side. Like bruh I may be wrong though I haven't done research maybe it's sprawling and nice and away from traffic

[@fennviktorvich]

This is literally how it is in the preexisting and successful 5th, 1st settlement and New Cairo, your point is?

[@2inpress232]

Every time I see a park / green area surrounded by or next to a large road / freeway I just get so infuratiated at the incompetence of the city planning. Like seriously who is going to use those parks? Also you can rest assured that even though the only way to transport yourself is by car, there isn't going to be any parking space made so they're going to have to use gigantic plots of land just to use as a parking lot

[@Squig96]

As an architecture/city planning student I cen tell not only that parc but a most things got me losing it over how bad it is.

[@2inpress232]

I wonder who even plans these cities, because from going to lectures on those topics it's incredibly clear none of the people that designed this had any knowledge of urban planning / spacial arcitecture

[@bucket6386]

Hey my city was gonna build a freeway through a nature reserve but then they made it a tunnel instead! Thank you government!

[@samwallaceart288]

Yeah bigass encircling highway = only those who have a car and can park the damn thing are allowed in. Move the highway somewhere else then you don't even need a parking lot, period.

[@Irisverse]

@@2inpress232 I'm going to guess it's the same people who plan to benefit from them, the government and military. Who, as is the case with most dictatorships, got their positions through either nepotism or deposition, instead of actual skill.

[@PsychoSocialism]

My dad went to cairo a few times. Said it was the only city he, a lifelong biker, refused to ride a bike in. Apparently he once saw an entire family on the back of a 60s moped, carrying a box of chickens and dragging a goat on a string behind it

[@kiranp5611]

Indians are way more adventurous on bikes but Egypt really looks f**ked up.

[@Omar-gs5jw]

The streets are unclean but the houses are clean egyptians don't feel home in their own country and ignorance is increasing every day just like the population that's why Cairo is like a ticked garbage bomb

[@محمودمحمد-ر8ج2ك]

Believe me there is so much worse than this . We even look at cairo as the best city in Egypt

[@حمادة_الواعي]

I call BS on dragging a goat

[@toobig7150]

what does moped mean? Like they just grabbed the back of the car and cling to it while dragging a goat? Never heard that word (moped) outside of gaming (the moped us) or cleaning (moping the floor)

[@josephhaggar422]

Very well explained Adam, I can’t believe a non egyptian can understand and explain it so well when some locals can’t comprehend the disaster we are facing

[@Abed_Issa]

As an Egyptian I always thought that the amount of corruption Egypt is in is not clear to the public and that's why the problems are still going. And the problems are not that big because the government and the media never talks about it instead they play songs about how beautiful Egypt is in the TV 24 hours. And that we are the problem that we are not doing good financially, because the government always blame us , we have too many kids, we don't work hard enough, we don't study hard enough to get a decent education. But it just amazes me that someone from the other side of the world with a quick research online found all the problems our country is dealing with , and it's very clear to the government and the public and yet nothing has changed and probably nothing will.

[@moneyobsessed]

The too many kid thing is true, if you are not a subsistence farmer, don't make a lot of kids! It will cause a lot of difficulties for the family. Kids for proletariat or bourgeois are mostly a cost

[@samwallaceart288]

@@moneyobsessed It's the government's job to maintain things well enough for their civilians to live as they please, or the civilians WILL leave or revolt. People are dumb in any country, it's the government's job to take that into account and help their stupid population

[@saifabualhasan1850]

You can't blame the average Egyptian though. Without the slightest form of free speech things like this won't ever be brought up in the media people consume, only blatant propaganda lies. Most people aren't educated enough to do the quick online research someone from the other side of the world could do.

[@polasamierwahsh421]

Power , those who can fix things need power to do so and those with power only care about increasing and maintain their hold on the power

[@polasamierwahsh421]

@@moneyobsessed not really It's boils down to education and employment China has a massive population but it's an educated/skilled population allowing for companies , factories and small businesses to easily open India has a massive population but it has invested in low tech and low skill industries along with extreme support to immigration to work In Egypt in 50s 3/4 weren't even educated but they pushed and pushed and by 60s illiteracy went below 30% , unfortunately in the 70s the leadership tore down the previous long term projects and in the 80s bureaucracy kicked in and till now it hasn't gotten better , as for skilled Labour education it had been neglected since the 70s and until...2018 the gov didn't even support small businesses while low tech industries were neglected by private sector with the public sector (the biggest low tech industries holder) being dismantled and destroyed DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON HOW THE GOV VILLAINIZED IMMIGRATION

[@DigitalNomadOnFIRE]

Making Bucharest's Palace of the Parliament look like a family house.

[@taimer_322]

MAKING THE MOTHER OF ALL PALACES, JACK, CAN'T FRED ON EVERY BRICK

[@KerbalFacile]

"Sand Ceaucescu" indeed.

[@edwardmaginot]

@@taimer_322 Not when you're forgetting the poor, right? What do you know about the poor. You never had to work, to ration, to move just to survive!

[@simonnilsson8375]

I can just imagine the skyscraper finally been built, the leader of Egypt wants the top floor only to find out it takes 40 min in the elevator to reach top floor. And when he arrives to it, he calls the manager and blames it all on him. “WHY DID YOU BUILD IT SO HIGH?!”

[@abdulrahmanh.bawadekji3499]

😂😂

[@hassanaref]

😄😄😄

[@erinrising2799]

3:00 why can't they combine the skyscraper and flagpole? Then the flagpole would at least have housing

[@ciphergacha9100]

That would be smart, which this is not

[@decryptroblox]

Egyptian here, Cairo is an amazing city if we took care of buildings and fixed their issues, there are lots of unpainted brick buildings that look ugly. Cairo is built around the nile, and has an old rich history, we should embrace this history rather than building a new city and copying oil rich gulf countries.

[@josephbenadam]

Cairo is too congested. Taking off the Skyscrapers the idea as the capital for administration is great

[@InfiniteDeckhand]

A lot of cleaning up would be needed to make Cairo beautiful again.

[@adenmehmedagic2513]

@@josephbenadam And the suburbs, and the bad design and fix the reachability, then it would be a "good" city

[@dog-ez2nu]

ill be honest, might need to revolution again.

[@Whatshisname346]

What a really positive comment. I’m a strong believer in rethinking failing urban spaces rather than starting with a blank sheet. It requires a lot of creativity and hard work but we’ve seen in a lot of smaller European cities that Urban design can work with the current built environment to create really cool, interesting, liveable spaces. No city is a lost cause. I’d love to know what the Egyptian architectural profession (outside the mega firms) think about this project.

[@froufroudeluxe]

When I went to Egypt something that really stuck with me is the amount of huge buildings that were completely empty. Now they're just building more? Alright

[@genericscout5408]

China has entire cities that no one lived in, which are crumbling and falling over. despite being "new" That's what happens when the few hold all the wealth, the money is wasted that's all.

[@CastorRabbit]

Works in China

[@thevaultdwellerf6691]

I believe the reason why there is a huge amount of empty buildings is due to a loophole in the law in which buildings that are technically "under construction" result in no council tax. So they essentially build a massive building, have a large percentage of it inhabited and then leave the rest as "empty" such that it can have the status of being under construction.

[@zied6456]

@@thevaultdwellerf6691 wow!

[@fennviktorvich]

@@thevaultdwellerf6691 Alongside rebars sticking out of the last floor.

[@marcosbravo9645]

As a Brazilian I caught a glimpse at that long central park and the first thing I thought was my country capital, Brasília. Then I heard of the "Octogon" military center and now I get the impression they are trying to rip-off a few world capitals and nations and "surpass" them.

[@tomaszzalewski4541]

Yeah, in my country we have the "Palace of culture" otherwise known as "the gift from the Soviets" in Warsaw. A gift that we 🇵🇱 had to pay for, a gift that was build in a ruined city, right in front of piles of rubble and houses that still had holes in them. What was the point of it? To show that our new communist goverment is stronger then the one of the second republic (the highest building at that time was build under pre-war goverment - and it still stands, one of the very few pieces of the original city). This was more important than people having roof. Was it also this level of f$cked in Brasil?

[@gabrieltorres6484]

The building of Brasilia is a disgrace and went only to serve the purpose of keeping political elite isolated away from the masses and big city protests.

[@marcosbravo9645]

@@gabrieltorres6484 I disagree. One cannot say only the elites live in Brasília and its surrounded cities, neither that massive protests don't occur there.

[@polasamierwahsh421]

They are The oblisik is for uae Octagon for dc Central park for nyc French area is to piss of francophone countries who don't have the budget for it American suburb to show the us we are cool like tel Aviv Many many international universities to mimic old European cities Monorail to mimic built train Big flag for big national energy Big parliament for "democracy" Gov district to say "no more" red tape Big cathedral to win up Lebanon as a "tolerant" country Big mosques to say we are religious like saudi

[@fennviktorvich]

@@marcosbravo9645 And neither this new capital will be limited to the "rich" or the "elite", are they going to serve themselves? it is an administrative city ffs, of course you will have all walks of life living in or near it, if not there's transportation for a reason, and obviously anyone freelancing there will work for higher rates and sell services/commodities for far higher prices since it's a middle-high income area.

[@teksight9714]

Someone once said, "Government is strong buildings filled with weak men."

[@Drahko12]

Is a shame because I traveled to Egypt and is true traffic safety does not exist. The poverty is bad and the urbanization of Cairo is horrible. I meet great people on this trip who believed there was not change to their lives for the better and that just 4 months before Mubarak was ousted. The new government is as corrupt as the previous one. Hope one day things get better for the people of Egypt

[@morskakumara1003]

Egypt’s traffic is pretty much do anything you want, just honk first. Wanna change lanes? Honk. Wanna overtake? Honk. Wanna take a turn? Yep, honk. Wanna move our of a parking spot? Also honk! Wanna do a backflip into a fruit stand? You guessed it, honk! Yeah, rally wouldn’t recommend traveling Egypt via car. :D

[@skapur]

So you want to condemn people to live in a much worse situation in a village somewhere. The urbanization that you so readily condemn is the best living condition that the people living there can get. They live there because all other places are far worse. This Europhile let them eat cake attitude is really disgusting.

[@joaop4585]

Sorry, but sometimes a corrup and d*mb society elects d*mb and corrupt officials... nothing new under the sun

[@ling636]

@@skapur They are criticizing the urban decisions made by the government. You can critique how a city without condemning people that live there. Calm down.

[@skapur]

@@ling636 the government is doing a good thing with urbanization. The government has limited resources in poor countries. I have no association with Egypt. Never been there, no plan to go there, don’t know anyone from there. I live in the United States and have lived here for forty years. I find it very disgusting that people in Europe and other Europhiles are so ready to condemn governments and people in poor countries when they seek a better life in urban/suburban areas.

[@mmts96]

As an Egyptian citizen who’s also an architect who believes in the stupidity of the New Capital, I really want to share this video… but I don’t want to risk getting arrested or sth 😂😂 I’ll wait until I migrate somewhere safe 😂😂😂😂

[@lonnpton5239]

Que la paix soit avec toi 🧭

[@diekritischestimme]

Oh, don't worry about migrating first, Google/Alphabet is surely selling your comment to your government. Packed your underwear for prison already? Sorry, living in the West made me quite sarcastic. Might have resulted from living in a "democracy" aka an "Edward Bernays' style propaganda managed technocratical system serving big tech and big pharma and other globalist madmen"...

[@hyamick7584]

@@YouOnlyIiveTwice where r u from?

[@theliar214]

then change your profile name on youtube lol

[@FR4M3Sharma]

@@YouOnlyIiveTwice Not borderline, it is a dictator ship.

[@aspire90medo1]

the accuracy of the information in this video is Amazingly SHOCKING, he nailed every single aspect, Politics, Sociology, Engineering, and Architecture........ I am an Egyptian living in Cairo and this video cannot be more accurate..............hats off to the video makers

[@AhmedMagdy-uj9bt]

I'm an Egyptian and every single word you've said is absolutely true.

[@Find_Fresno_Nightcrawler]

I worry for your safety after this comment...

[@RViND]

I've been to Egypt so when Adam was talking about the situation in Cairo (ie the slums, highways next to half finished occupied buildings, the microbuses etc) memories came flooding back and I know its all true. I was shocked to see in the comments of that neo video he referenced there were so many Egyptians (or people claiming to be Egyptians) saying its such a wonderful project and being so proud of it.

[@a_bone_in_the_ocean2276]

@1min ago some shitty cooking video dont click the link

[@danielkoenen859]

@@a_bone_in_the_ocean2276 thanks man

[@wisdomleader85]

It seems that your government wants to go big or go home. I hope they'll go home instead.

[@MrValentine101]

On the note of anti-revolutionary design, projects like this are intended to make it harder to organise. With massive open spaces comes the problem of creating defensible positions, as to avoid being pushed out immediately by government forces. It's a tactic that goes back to at least post revolutionary Paris, where large swathes of the city were rebuilt with the intention of making it harder for protestors to organise. Resulting in the huge avenues the city is now known for. Compared to the much more dense urban environment that existed before the revolution. To treat a project like this with a surface level "look! BIG!" attitude is deeply irresponsible, and borders on morally reprehensible.

[@NiesamowityVaulter]

It's goes even further back. Avoiding social unrest was one of the reasons why Louis XIV build his new palace in Versailles.

[@these_handles_are_stupid]

i agree with you that that should've been covered, but morally reprehensible? really? you don't think that he couldn't have just, you know, not thought of that? there's no need to start pearl clutching.

[@nicolasrancourt3958]

He talks about that at the 8 minute mark

[@philippemarcil2004]

@@these_handles_are_stupid Both Adam Something and the commenter mean that glorifying these constructions actually just flatter the egos of the dictators. Furthermore, the "Look it Big video" plays into the regime propaganda. KZbinrs and journalists fawning over these ridiculous projects just encourage the dictator to push thing even further and, on the way, hurting their people more. This is why discussing these projects only positively is actually harmful. In fact, the reason those kind of crazy projects exist are based on the huge amount of attention, mostly positive, the Burj Khalifa obtained. Not surprisingly, this created a demand for crazier projects as most dictator said to themselves: "Eh, I want this kind of positive publicity and be seen as a modernizer, visionary and builder". However, if nearly everyone critique them for these truly wasteful and sometime hurtful projects, they will build less of them - or at least, less atrociously bad one.

[@Charles-cs8mv]

Larger spaces and huge avenues also make it much harder for big fires to spread. To physically interrupt said dense environment was a good thing to do.

[@MrDebkumarbasu]

I studied for a semester in Cairo University. Even being an Indian, when it came to cross the road to get to the university, there were times I literally went: nope! Not today, I have a feeling, crossing the road today isn't worth it. And then covid hit! That is another story. Speaking of being Indian, Adam, you might want to take a look at the national vista, New Delhi. Thanks in advance.

[@rohan14040]

at least modi is not shifting capital from delhi .

[@singularityraptor4022]

National Vista is more of a renovation of antique architecture more than fancy dick waving.

[@globedoc]

National Vista is a travesty... Unbefitting a future superpower

[@tanmaykumar7054]

To be fair, Modi's also building the RRTS and new Delhi metro lines.

[@permanentmarkerone]

Whats wrong with National Vista ?

[@MohamedxxHassan]

I am Egyptian and you said everything is true This does not only happen in Cairo There are many cities in Egypt suffer from dictatorship The rich are getting richer And the poor get poorer

[@flippyflapperson872]

The old Arabic cities you see in medieval history books have such a unique beauty to them; they blend in so naturally with the desert surroundings, they have a bustling energy full of life and commerce. It's a shame that instead of trying to recreate that aesthetic but with more modern amenities, dictators and Saudi princes are just spending billions to make these hideous hyper-modernist skyscraper suburbs that look like they were made by a 9 year old in Sim City.

[@jeece711]

I know right mate! I have already said it on other videos but I would have had the money Dubai has, I would have instead created a new Babylon straight out of a tale of A Thousand And One Nights with an equatorial level forest. A country dedicated to science and innovation in Space, IT, Medecine, Energy, in order to attract the greatest minds on earth... But no, I guess that giants penises made out of glasses and concrete in the desert for rich as*holes was a wayyyy better idea ...

[@jordinagel1184]

Agreed. I’ve never been to an Arab country, but I’ve seen the Alcazar, Mezquita de Córdoba, Alhambra, and many other such buildings in Spain left over from the Muslim conquest and occupation, and they’re gorgeous. If the Egyptian dick-tater was so set on emulating the country’s past, he should’ve taken an inspiration from more than simply enormous, pompous architecture, and have a proper style created. Then again, that’s probably too much creativity for his pea brain to handle

[@vorour]

... honestly yeah

[@speedking7224]

The old Arabic administrators were much better. With a clear vision for empowerment of society as a whole, taken from Islamic values. It seems the Arab and Muslim world has forgotten its roots

[@bassam_salim]

@@speedking7224 after the western invasion of the Arab world most rulers are puppets of the west that do what their masters say just to stay on the throne more, they just give enough for the people to shut up, every muslim ruler who did something good for their people and or something bad for the west was killed brutally, King faisal is a big example, others include Qadafi and Sadam and Alhamdi of north Yemen (before 1990s)

[@lastexit1340]

Normal people: I'm hungry and can barely afford to live Autocrats: LETS MAKE A BIG NEW CAPITOL AND HUGE MONUMENTS TO MEEEEE! The story of human civilization.

[@elijahclubb4097]

Oriental/ Decadent civilisation

[@saifabualhasan1850]

I really appreciate this video. Being an Egyptian, I know these kinds of truths are never to be said anywhere in Egypt. People know nothing about how disastrous the new capital is. And people who know can't even try to educate people about it, as they'll be literally risking death or abduction by the government

[@vik4741]

Yup, after the unrests that plagued Egypt, the ruling class are separating themselves from the poor

[@SylversVolpe]

@@vik4741 Honestly, the ruling class has always been separate anyway. I rather think this is a feeble attempt to put all the buildings of governance in a controlled space. In a bid to disallow the next revolution from deposing the dictator in power.

[@polasamierwahsh421]

Or just be mocked and ridiculed

[@polasamierwahsh421]

Only online can we have a safe place to talk brother And I do mean safe and not free because the gov made a law that any platform with over 5000 will be monitored

[@vik4741]

@@SylversVolpe Yup exactly. They learnt from the last revolution and have planned this to keep the ordinary folk far away

[@reinhardtreinsch2923]

13:39 This poem fits this video in two ways. Because it is´nt just a poem about a lost civilization and the vanity of their ruins(especially Egypt ones). Ozymandias is also the Greek name for Ramses😄

[@D-angelin.Moarar]

So happy to finally see someone big calling out this absolute madness. The amount of people who were amazed over videos like the one of Neo almost made me lose hope.

[@DavidWest2]

Seriously. You even had lots of Egyptians bamboozled by the size and scope of the project.

[@mohamed-1995-5]

@@DavidWest2 Some dummies are happy because he's offering temporary jobs.😂

[@88Somi]

"Someone big" lmao

[@D-angelin.Moarar]

@@88Somi 500k views for a political vid is rather big. But whatever.

[@88Somi]

@@D-angelin.Moarar unless Egypyians start riits agains thier corupt goverment and point this video as starting point then no this is not big. If only views count is what is matter then we should be rulled by cats and porn starts

[@remo_cappucino3882]

You stepped up your editing by a lot in this video. Makes it way more engaging to watch. Keep up the fantastic work

[@billrivers6566]

Everything except for the Ukraine videos are good because Jackson embarrassed him in that debate.

[@dstyKchp]

I noticed and I found it charming and unique

[@dimittrikovk2]

@@billrivers6566 can you give some context or a link for that?

[@redsun7223]

@@dimittrikovk2 I think they’re talking about this kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZScY2Smo6mKj9k in which case they’re bullshitting if they think he lost

[@shrub8644]

@@dimittrikovk2 he's a tankie, just ignore him. the debate is on Adam's second channel

[@Laurell_Silentshade]

I love how the green spaces in these videos are the corporate conception of green space. Every plant is placed in these artificially perfect rows and God forbid a random seed flourish outside the preordained pattern. Nevermind the whole thing being out of place in the middle of a damned desert.

[@diablo.the.cheater]

I personally preffer it that way, but i have phobia to plants, so seeing plants opressed in their reticules like prisoners is weirdly conforting for all the wrong reasons

[@amapper7407]

@@diablo.the.cheater lmaoo

[@danieljoseph6404]

@@diablo.the.cheater Go touch some grass

[@zechsblack5891]

@@danieljoseph6404 yea sure, that's exactly what the grass has been waiting for him to do. Plotting.

[@Vague05]

@@diablo.the.cheater lol, this is weirdly funny on some level

[@Phase52012]

Long, long ago they built an elevated monorail through the streets of Sydney. Its purpose was to connect all the big hotels around the city to the new CASINO that was being built at Darling Harbour. Only the location for the Casino changed and it wasn't built at Darling Harbour but a kilometer or two away from it, and well away from the completed monorail. So we had a monorail which did a loop around the city but really benefitted no one. For $2 it was a fun ride, but that was it. It's gone now, taken down because no one cared to use it. Well, the first time a train broke down on it; all the others had to stop running; and no one knew how to get the passengers down. The fire brigade had to bring in cheery pickers and do one carriage at a time. It took over 3hrs; and it blocked traffic in the street.

[@Nimroc]

12000 deaths from road accidents didn't seem that crazy to me at first, certainly really bad but that is still less than in the US even when adjusted for population size. But then you realise that the US have about 281mil registered vehicles for a population of 329mil while Egypt have about 8-9mil vehicles for a population of 102mil, almost keeping up with the US despite the US having 10x times the amount of vehicles when adjusted for population is morbidly impressive...

[@CheapSquierBassPlayer]

You're leaving something out though. That much chaos in a sht hole nation just isn't safe.

[@mryuk1621]

egypt is denser in popluation than the US the triangle of the nile delta is around 60 million ppl in near 200km x 200 km area and way more less strict traffic control than the US

[@sensei_monke798]

@@CheapSquierBassPlayer it’s morbin time

[@lupen_rein]

to be fair though, most Americans don't use their 3 cars parked in their oversized garages all that often. They use one of their 3 cars, while most of those Egyptians (except some corrupt rich people who have 3 Benteleys) only have 1 car and use it all the time. So we would need to compare real-time driving hours and there it's going to become a little more equal, even though the difference will still be quite big.

[@TheRealNickG]

​@@lupen_rein It would be much simpler to take the areas of highest population density in the US and compare rates of accidents causing injury per 100,000.

[@bankerpiggy4721]

Egypt: Can I build some Buildings? Adam: Sure but only One Project. Egypt: *Builds comically large Capital*

[@rohankishibe8259]

Prophecy of Islam, When you see barefoot, naked, destitute shepherds competing in constructing tall buildings.” وَأَنْ تَرَى الْحُفَاةَ الْعُرَاةَ الْعَالَةَ رِعَاءَ الشَّاءِ يَتَطَاوَلُونَ فِي الْبِنَاءِ Arab citizens suffering while arab leaders competing who's gonna build the highest buildings, we're truly at the end times

[@heartache5742]

@@rohankishibe8259 that's fun

[@kasane1337]

@@rohankishibe8259 D-did you say naked *and* barefoot? 🥺

[@tjarkschweizer]

@@rohankishibe8259 You do realize that this has been happening for thousands of years right? Any idiot could make that prophecy and it will always come true.

[@rohankishibe8259]

@@tjarkschweizer hmmmm yes, any one can predict the romans downfall and defeat then their victory over the persians in the lowest land, 3 predictions here, the exact location of lowest land near the dead sea, their defeat, and their victory... Yes, anyone can predict how milk is created inside a cow, or how iron came from space, or how clouds are so so heavy weighing tons, or how a baby is formed to such details while not missing a mark while claiming 10000000000% truth. Yeah, bunch of random prophecies here and there and all of them claimed to be the truth and... Voila, most of them are confirmed...

[@WolfTheTrueKing]

Hai, Brazilian here. In the 60s we did the same thing with our capital and built an new one: Brasilia, don't get me wrong the city nowadays has tons of cool stuff but if Adam want to see an well studied case on why road-centric planned urban centers are a disaster there's tons of articles written about it

[@dylantom608]

In fairness to Brazil at the time, there wasn’t as much history to see the effects of such a car centric model. The mass market adoption of cars at the time was still very new. The 60s was also when the US was building highways through the downtown of cities.

[@Marc83Aus]

It sounds like that project would be the perfrct thing for adam to do a deep dive into, a megaproject video as it were going back to what used to be there, what worked already and what wasn't working, then the history behind the project, corruption and influences that got into the design, the construction itself, more corruption and influence i would imagne, then setbacks, funding issues, overruns, disasters, the final result, what went completely wron and what of the new city actually works, wy those things work now, was there mitigation needed in the years after consurtcion. What lessons could be learned and then finally paralells with other ongoing or planed future projects that are similar. Would be like an hour long at least if not broken into several parts, Could truely be Adam's magnum opus.

[@MrMBLN]

@@Marc83Aus I think there's a bit of bias in your comment. Yes, there was some degree of corruption because the president opened the coffers and essentially said the money wasn't an issue because he really wanted to see the city get built, but probably not to the extent that you think. And the design was actually pretty well done. There was an international competition with thousands of entries and the chosen one was designed by Lúcio Costa, a very renowned Brazilian architect. However, it was heavily influenced by car centrism, as at the time cars were seen as a sign of progress. The big issue with Brasília if you wanna know was the amount of debt the country was saddled with in the following decades because of its construction and the lack of planning for the arrival of millions of people from poorer parts of the country.

[@Rubycek]

Michael Beach did a video about Brasilia

[@Marc83Aus]

@@MrMBLN The bias is that political programs and big construction always has corruption, you just have to find it, nothing about Brasil specifically.

[@nataschavisser573]

South Africa almost built a giant flagpole last year but there was such a public outcry about it that the plan was scuppered. It is mind boggling that the minister who proposed the project thought it was worth the small fortune it would cost. Even worse, they were not summary sacked from their post.

[@delilas2398]

what shocked me most about this is how much they already built. This is the kind of stuff that usually stays in CGI. I guess those rules don't apply to dictators

[@AllonKirtchik]

Building this crap is easy when you have North Korean “migrant workers” working for you

[@big_o1952]

@@AllonKirtchik i am sure it would be easier with local workers

[@z3totthefrist747]

Egyptian here , the current president of Egypt usually brings workers from the rural or country side and they are usually overworked and don't get paid really well and they can't speak about it

[@Kr0noZ]

@omar actually if you check google maps it appears that the octagon, several residential areas, a bunch of the landmarks and pretty much the entire government sector are coming together nicely.

[@rhetoric5173]

I think it’s free labor using military conscripts

[@Razielchan666]

"and an American-style suburb" - all I needed to hear to know it was unfixably bad.

[@ItHadToBeSaid]

There are a lot of them in Cairo :/

[@tjenadonn6158]

There are two ways to do things: the right way and the American way.

[@TheItalianoAssassino]

Egyptians: "Hey Government, we're poor af, can we have some money pls?" Egyptian Government: "Did I hear build a hugeass new capital in the desert because fuck you? Coming right up 😎"

[@xeon3314]

As an Egyptian you are right 😓💔

[@Biotear]

"Hey let's move our entire ruling class out to a place away from everyone else." Ok, I will be considering everyone there a combatant and therefore can drone strike with impunity.

[@kelvinrodrigues9351]

"It's significantly harder to overthrow your government when the parliament is 12 hours away on foot in the desert" Me, a brazilian (a country that in the 1950's did preatty much the same thing but the capital was moved away from big city centers by about 1500 km on average insted of just 58km) listening this: "LMAO! noobs!"

[@death_parade]

Indian government simply rebuilding their capital buildings and parliament in the same place: I am in danger.

[@paulelderson934]

Myanmar be like: newbies

[@fennviktorvich]

A lot of people are making a fuss about the distance or the quirky one liner "in the middle of the desert", the whole country and its cities are "in the middle of the desert". Egyptian "new cities" inevitably bridge the gaps, previous "new cities" of reigns bygone count as good evidence.

[@jacksonlarson6099]

I lost it when you mentioned "The Octagon." They're just not even trying, are they?

[@ahmedmorgel]

Come on! It looks cool from above. 😐 BTW, Chinese companies are building. Our leaders don't think or work. They steal and give orders!

[@knutthompson7879]

And other dictators around the world are saying “Quick! Someone tell me the shape that comes after octagon!”

[@bubbamike4743]

@@knutthompson7879 NONAGON INFINITY OPENS THE DOOR

[@DiamondKingStudios]

Riyadh, 2030 "Work has begun on our new _Decagon_ !"

[@juliuszkocinski7478]

"because there's lots of polygons. Even the regulars go on- and on-a-gon" ~CGP Grey

[@khaledMohamed-tp4wx]

As an Egyptian, I completely agree. This is utterly useless to us, very useful to the elite and their companies profiting off this useless capital. Worst thing is he took so many loans to embark on this useless construction with no way to pay these loans back.

[@lupen_rein]

Yeah, in a way this new capital is just a multi-billion corruption scheme for the ruling classes.

[@CASANOVA68365]

another Egyptian here, i truly appreciate this content and for the world to know our problems makes them feel less bad thank you

[@perihanelgohary7306]

With all due respect Mr. Khaled, just to give you some economical explanation, if those elite companies didn't work on those projects or others ; you will probably won't have a job or your wife, your brother, your friends and many more poor workers who lives on those kind of projects. When you deal with a governmental issues not necessarily all the actions taken is in favor for everyone and benefiting everyone but it is for the stability of the ecosystem. Not to say I'm happy or clapping for everything that is done but i always try to be objective. i hope it resonate

[@nni9310]

This is appalling. Isn't anyone in Egypt opposing this? Hasn't any religious, civilian or military figure spoken out against this? Egypt has 100 million people, mostly young. It is a large country with much sun. With democracy, a functioning legal system, education and economic development, it could be wealthy and powerful. Instead, it is ruled by a corrupt parasitic military, operating pathetically below its potential.

[@cholst1]

@@perihanelgohary7306 "Stability of the ecosystem" - top 10 dumbest arguments i've seen.

[@ItsAVolcano]

The funds to build this could have rebuilt Egypt's irrigation infrastructure, effectively dealing with the issue of the dam Ethiopia built on the Nile.

[@heshamhero6149]

We already did Mr.Ethiopian GERD apologist.

[@steveballzack1409]

You've basically described my city, Ottawa, Canada. The Greber Plan was an ambitious 1950's plan to modernize the city, which basically meant rebuild the city around the automobile. They never finished the plan but they got far enough on it to mess the city up pretty badly. In the process they destroyed a bunch of neighborhoods. We had a streetcar system that covered the whole city. They tore the tracks out and replaced them with diesel buses. They tore out the railway tracks and in their place they built a giant, raised freeway cutting right through the middle of the city just metres from residential buildings. They moved the train station from Downtown out to the middle of nowhere. They built a series of uncrossable 4 lane roads in the heart of the city. Our Maspero Triangle was called the LeBreton Flats. The city labelled it a slum and tore everything down, after which the land sat vacant FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS!!! The city used it as a dumping ground for snow removed from the streets in the winter. Just recently have they begun construction on a bunch of poorly planned projects. I could go on and on. You should do a video about it, would be interesting I bet.

[@nlpnt]

Wasn't Ottawa a planned capital in the first place, since they couldn't agree whether the capital should be in Toronto or Montreal? That's happened a lot - Washington, DC was built because New York, Boston and Philadelphia all wanted to be permanent capital and the South didn't want any of them, Canberra was built because Sydney and Melbourne had a similar rivalry...

[@LordofTheFallen]

@@nlpnt Nope, the opposite actually. They couldn't decide, so they asked Queen Victoria to choose a city, with requirements like I being french and english and far from the border to not get invaded by the US. She chose a backwater town, and everyone was stuck with it. Though they then built it up a lot.

[@ahscott2001]

Egypt 5000 years ago: let’s build some massive structure that’s pointlessly large but shows how big our ruler’s ego is. Egypt now: let’s build some massive city that’s pointlessly large but shows how big our ruler’s ego is.

[@dsgarden]

Yeah that's what I am fascinated by people who are fascinated with ancient Egypt. Ancient Egypt was just a more grandiose version of present day North Korea

[@npc6817]

@@dsgarden for as much as you're right, at least the pharaohs saw paying for actual laborers and giving proper pay instead of just buying a bunch of slaves as part of the grandiosity of the project.

[@adash7841]

@@dsgarden I don't agree with your statement. Egyptian civilization did achieved many great things unlike North Korea where you can't even escape and it's never created something new.

[@goldie44451]

To be honest, Egypt was one of the best places to be in ancient times.

[@magiv4205]

@@npc6817 Exactly, of course they had slaves and Pharaos were shitty people with a god complex, but hey, at least their builders were well respected and paid. Thus, stupid as their monuments are when you look beyond the grandiose surface, they actually built cities and a civilization to last. They had better urban planning thousands of years ago than whatever the fuck is going on now, and that's just depressing.

[@texaspoontappa2088]

I am egyptian and I support slandering the new capital and the idiot who decided to prioritize that over, oh I don't know, QUALITY EDUCATION. Also this is seriously the best and most rounded video I've ever seen on the new capital. You've captured all of the politics and classism that has gone into it, with the military dictatorship, non existent traffic laws and public transit, and how we seriously could've better invested that money into our existing cities and people. I am so impressed and grateful for a video this well researched! Thank you!

[@BeaverChainsaw]

I am so sorry that you and egyptians have to live under that shitty government/millitary. Also if im correct, the army basically owns most of the country's industry right? Does that discourages local businesses in any way?

[@egyptianboi305]

@@BeaverChainsaw yes they do they would accuse any one who starts a business of being a "muslim extremist" then seize they're business and imprison them and if that wasnt enough they keep licking the gulf countries boots for money instead of doing anything beneficial for Egyptians,egypt is just a piggy bank and we are the peasants

[@Msyt92]

@@BeaverChainsaw yup, the army literally controls so many sectors to the point that they own atleast a third of the economy, they have farms, barns they sell vegetables meat tools utinsils provide construction services they own the controlling internet company and limit internet usage they are tax exempt so have a major competitive advantage, they tax other private companies to death, the military owns hotels resorts they own entire cities and coast lines they started their own mobile company they are involved in textiles, energy production the list goes on and on when living in egypt you need a military aquintance or friend who would use their nepotism to help you through endless beuracracy, help you get out of jail, help you enter a school or university, also you need military connections just to join the military due to all the privileges you get. the military owns egypt and egyptians dont see anything wrong with it because thats just how its been for 70 years. they would so casually talk about needing a favour from a military personnel they know aka corruption and how everyone needs military connections to survive edit: forgot to mention they benefit from free conscription labor, they get alot of fresh graduate doctors and engineers to help them plan projects for free and use people with business degrees as accountants if need be, youll sometimes get a job based on your certificate but if they dont need you youll deal with manual labor. people with no certificates are used as labor in construction, sales. litereal soldiers have been seen selling tomatos for the army. avoiding conscription is punishable by the military courts with years in prison and monetary fines. you cannot work anywhere after the age of 18 without a certificate to prove youve completed service or have been exonerated.

[@Tengokujin]

It's not slander if it's true :p

[@SherawCairo]

This video is just full of nonsense and BS

[@GeneralDino]

Imagine a zombie apocalypse in that shit

[@aslandus]

Egypt: Staring down the barrel of a water crisis Egypt's government: *Builds a ton of lawn space in the desert* People buying water on the futures market: STONKS

[@mfaizsyahmi]

> People buying water on the futures market: STONKS brb gonna buy some shares in Nestle

[@Red0543]

I met a traveller from an antique land, who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert.. Near them, on the sand, half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, tell that its sculptor well those passions read. Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, the hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings! Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away…”

[@il9375]

I really like this poem. First heard of it in a Exurb1a video, which basically became a rabbithole in the world of English literature for me (im not a native English speaker).

[@Milanutje]

We had to study this poem for English a few weeks ago and I didn't think I'd ever see it again. I'm actually quite surprised.

[@BingoBosnia]

Oh hell yeah i love full metal alchemist

[@lapislazarus8899]

@@il9375 I only just discovered his channel, I've been binge-watching for a few days 👍🏻

[@justadictatorridingonanuke3714]

God don't remind me of my poetry GCSE. Atleast it was the best poem out of the over a dozen

[@chungus816]

We actually analyzed the spatial planning of the Cairo area in geography a week ago, my takeaway was also that it was an absolute train wreck of a city design that is built for extreme congestion and inequality. Cool to see your take on this as I am currently working on a 4 page essay outlining the features of this planned city.

[@polasamierwahsh421]

Oo tell me more about that analysis ..in fact can u link it

[@chungus816]

@@polasamierwahsh421 the analysis is made on paper but the short version is: extreme spatial marginalization of the lower classes (i.e. Having medium-low income housing at the very edge of the city), terrible public infrastructure as mentioned in the video (the city in total has more golf resorts than train stations), and it doesn't really solve any of the congestion issues Cairo is facing due to marginalization. The city increases inequality doesn't do anything to relieve the Cairo mega city, which is the main reason these edge cities are usually created in the first place.

[@polasamierwahsh421]

@@chungus816 I knew infrastructure was bad but not more golf than train stations bad Honestly I wouldn't mind spatial marginalization if it only meant space , the rich area have better schools both public and private and better gov services (and gov treating u like a human and not an animal) , the education had been rigged for the rich & it's getting worse and as a victim of the system it angers me deeply while I've been treated better by actual criminals than gov workers (pen pushers ,police..etc) in several cases ,tho the good side is the ability to walk as our edges have more freedom and paths for people on average Yeah edge cities are a dud cus they cater to high end only , I have yet to see a "new" city here with low income area , in fact I've yet to even see the gov promised social housing for all being done , they are currently running a social housing project to fill the suburbs of new cities as it's supposed to be it's main purpose and new administrative capital as the rich need servants after all as the mono rail can't ferry them all

[@chungus816]

@@polasamierwahsh421 that's fucked up to hear. The things you mentioned, while not necessarily being caused directly by spatial marginalization, are still often a symptom of the segregation along economic lines, since the government is more likely to build better schools, roads, etc. in rich neighborhoods. How are things looking for the future? Does the population oppose the government or does it support it? Do you things are likely to change?

[@polasamierwahsh421]

@@chungus816 good point. The future is unknown but the gov claims to know it all , Egypt 2030 is the name of a very very lofty project that I don't know how achievable it is and I'm personally critical off , too many big goals with no steps or dead lines/time table and I have yet to see enough change to even mange 3 out of the 8 goals in time ,i only recall one about safety& security , one about economic development and one about social development and improvement . The population...is in a weird point ,in general they see efforts but not efforts in the right place and they see old problems not changing , at least that's in covid; Post covid idk for you see: in it's magnificence the gov introduced a massive real estate law that allowed the destruction of houses without court intervention mid quarantine EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY that's mid quarantine where everyone was fearful and or anxious & locked at homes , and they started tearing down buildings which led to riots in most of the country unfortunately it got hijacked by some guy and went from anger. over law to anti president protests which lead to even more imprisoned and the whole thing buried by media and people. The kicker for people rn is inflation PRICES ARE RAISING AND NOT STOPPING , I mean it was bad pre covid but now it's out of control and the war in Ukraine only makes it worse , people are reaching a boiling point and the gov keeps putting bandaid on the situation and forgetting that poor people have a right to live too , honestly one push and we got another round of riots much bigger this time. Unlikely there's no political leadership in any shape that can unify a big percentage of the population , the state monitor the media very closely and label those against it as enemies of the populace , they monitor by law every social media /app with.over 5k Egyptians (and hacking terrorist associates phones) and everyone who speaks of the current problems and blows up get locked by homeland police for "terrorist" charges , the current gov has a very tight hold on things and thanks to its neutral political stand rn I doubt any superpower would bother meddling in

[@MarcLuscher]

i was shocked by the unsafe driving conditions in Cairo (as an observant pedestrian, off course) as well as on the countryside. a Cairo bus driver had a meltdown after i disembarked and crossed what i would call a highway, on foot. he yelled and waived his arms, so i crossed back to the bus thinking "maybe he didn't intend for us to get off here". he immediately made a u-turn and let us off ... after I'd already made the trip twice on foot. i also saw a bus hit a pedestrian, and no care was given to the poor man, who got back to his feet and continued walking as if that were the price of getting where you want to go

[@Rubashow]

Given how corrupt and poor Egypt is, combined with water and food shortages, internal instability and global warming, I think it's safe to say that this will never become a reality.

[@Rubashow]

@@Shahpo My prediction is that it will become a three quarter built ghost town, like many Chinese pop up cities. It's also just one economic crisis away from being chas strapped.

[@Samthebasedman]

@@Rubashow indeed.

[@LabRat6619]

It's reality in most countries now, ego over rationality.

[@resonance6322]

@@Rubashow Egypt is one of the worlds largest importers of Grain; the price of which is shooting through the roof. The economic crisis is already here.

[@lucasgrey9794]

@@Rubashow Most of the so-called "Chinese ghost cities" have already been populated. This ofcourse doesn't serve the agenda of western libshart media.

[@getreal3148]

Yes, I love parks were you can have •Shade •Social activities 🤖

[@jpaulo_ap]

Yes, fellow human, I too love to engage in social interaction.

[@carwatcher2328]

@@jpaulo_ap I concur, communicating with fellow humans regarding recent events is indeed a great method through which I can improve my social skills and be able to mimic humanity better.

[@athanasiospapazoglou7310]

"The Design is very human"

[@gabsnandes7818]

Ah yes fellow human being, would you like to enjoy some quality social activity time in the park

[@BobfromSydney]

If the dicktator of Egypt needs some shade he can just watch this video.

[@TheVirumXD]

I'm an Egyptian living in New Cairo, what is usually said about the New Administrative Capital is that it's a project to attract foreign investment in order to allow more jobs and international businesses to come into the country creating factories and so on, however I find the scale of it to be outrageous. So far only two things are being done about Cairo and the other cities. One is that the government is building bridges everywhere possible to help with the traffic jams and to be honest, it has been working so far, before when it used to take 2 hours during working hours to get anywhere now just takes 30mins at most. The second thing is that they now finally clean the streets, they haven't been as clean as now for such a long time. This shows that the government is capable of doing something about Cairo yet chooses not to since they don't see a future in the old cities and the mid-low class citizens in general. I'm grateful to be living an easy life in Egypt but the way the government ignores 80% of the population is just outright disrespectful and disgusting.

[@thomasr1051]

Thanks for sharing your experiences

[@TheVirumXD]

@𝖔𝖋𝖋𝖎𝖟𝖎𝖊𝖗 𝖍𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖊𝖒 I am a pure fully blooded Egyptian as well.. and I have no idea what brought up terrorism and western ideologies into the talk... We are talking about how the Government could've used its resources differently and more wisely... not whatever you just said

[@samiamrg7]

+Offizier Hashem Well, then, you should know that Egypt’s long history is littered with people exploiting it’s resources at the expense of the people. Taken to it’s most extreme, the neglected people will inevitably rise up. That kind of exploitation and uprising may not destroy Egypt, but it is certainly not a productive cycle. Wise governance that meets the needs of the people instead of catering to the ruling class generally leads to more peace and prosperity.

[@suomiprkle]

@Offizier Hashem This is a troll, right? Good job almost fooled me there xD

[@suomiprkle]

@Offizier Hashem Just a absolute nutcase then...

[@lizrael]

This is really well-researched! I've been studying Egypt for over 11 years and this is spot on!

[@lookwhostaking6700]

Studying egypt?