Egypt are Building a Huge New Capital City. Here's Why.

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[@megaprojects9649]

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[@JoséFerIzaparraga]

Please talk about the high speed rail in Indonesia 🇮🇩

[@tripwire3992]

@@JoséFerIzaparragadid those guys build a new rail network?

[@Wake13]

“Egypt are” or “Egypt is”…?

[@AL-lh2ht]

Basically started as a practical new infrastructure that turned into a massive wealth transfer by the the corrupt military junta.

[@patrickguinnane]

Can you do an episode on Ireland's new childrens hospital that is looking like it's going to cost nearly 3 BILLION euro

[@0o-0o694]

From what I understand, it's a way of separating the people of Egypt from the seat of power. A ploy to prevent another coup from happening.

[@ksegg_ffs]

Seems like coups happen way too often on that side of the world.

[@Inucroft]

*Counter-Coup to remove the Military from power

[@AL-lh2ht]

Considering there is a coupe like every seven years it makes sense for them to do so.

[@0o-0o694]

​​@@ksegg_ffs Nations where the military has more power over laws and regulations than elected officials have this problems.

[@anngo4140]

But making it so outrageously expensive isn't very ideal

[@StunningModelAaliyahAustin-k7g]

What is it with countries short on so many resources, and logistical reasons, building these ludicrously-sized, “Teh Biggest Evar!” buildings?

[@regal105]

It’s like poor people wanting a Range Rover

[@maniacmcgee5992]

Money laundering. You spend $150Billion to dig a 2billion hole filed with 25billion of metal and wire and consulting services.

[@shadowfox009x]

Most are also dictatorships and dictators like massive buildings and monuments. It's part of their megalomania.

[@jackday420]

Be gone, bot!

[@AL-lh2ht]

@@maniacmcgee5992this is corrupt. The companies working on the new capital are owned and controlled by the military junta generals. It’s a project that likely makes makes sense to build turned into a massive wealth transfer.

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

What’s this? A thumbnail with the correct use of “it’s”?? I knew you could do it! So proud!

[@high-captain-BaLrog]

I love the commentators here!

[@FlyWithFitz81]

Egypt seems like a scary place. All those mummies running around. Leave it to the pro's like Brendan Fraser.

[@tomholroyd7519]

We don't even know if Egypt is plural or not, apparently.

[@sabrinarodrigues629]

As a woman I'd never go there.

[@Joeriks2]

​@@sabrinarodrigues629 Yeah I don't think they need Karens there. The keinemusik egypt party by the pyramids was lit and was literally filled with beautiful people, let alone the praising touristic experience videos on KZbin from Solo female travelers in Egypt. Like I said a self-h.a.ting Karen like you wouldn't be welcomed anywhere.

[@Joeriks2]

@@sabrinarodrigues629 Yeah I don't think they need Karens there. The Keinemusik Egypt party by the pyramids was lit and was literally filled with beautiful people, let alone the praising touristic experience videos on KZbin from Solo female travelers in Egypt. Like I said a pessimistic Karen like you wouldn't be welcomed anywhere.

[@FlyWithFitz81]

@@tomholroyd7519 Dats the sound of the Grammar Police

[@kevincinnamontoast3669]

The new capitol " Taco ,Bell Pepsi City" looks fab.

[@joyfuflower]

It is ironic that a city that was partially billed as a solution to the insane congestion in Cairo is almost entirely car-centric, now you'll have 20 lanes of gridlock instead of 6!

[@AL-lh2ht]

In reality people drive cars. In reality Cario is one of the dencist places on earth. In reality they are building rails too.

[@dinsdalemontypiranha4349]

Another great Megaprojects video. Thanks Simon!

[@caesarshotdogchampion8738]

IS, Simon! IS BUILDING!

[@definitelynotjasonmomoa]

Calm down, ffs

[@caesarshotdogchampion8738]

@@definitelynotjasonmomoa For fucks sake, False Jason Mamoa! For fucks sake!

[@high-captain-BaLrog]

Grammar nazis are a boon to society.

[@thepax2621]

😂

[@videowilliams]

Oh I never thought the new capital was meant to help out Cairo- just to lift the government outside its problems.

[@ShadyAli17]

As an Egyptian i can not agree more, i hate to say it but your are right.

[@cowboybeboop9420]

My guess is this city will probably end up like Brazil`s new capital. It`s a shiny new modernist city for the rich that`s easy to defend and kind of separated but at the same time ALL of the land around it is filled with the shitty houses and chaos of a typical Brazilian city. The poor people just moved around it and did what they always do. I can totally see Egypt`s new capital having a "modern" part and then being surrounded by typical Egyptian neighborhoods in about 50 years time. Maybe less.

[@anubisegy2002]

From the start of the republic in 1950s Egypt immediately had multiple wars so the military in 1960s and 1970s get alot of independence from the government and actually had alot of power to control anything the civilian government do Every country have an army the Egyptian army have a country

[@davidhiatt1486]

Makes perfect sense, because it wouldn't be the first time the capital has changed locations in Egypt historically.

[@daviddelgado6090]

Cairo's infrastructure cannot be upgraded further. Inevitably the distance between Cairo and the new capital will be populated.

[@cowboybeboop9420]

From what I`ve researched Cairo doesn`t have traffic lights, public transport and the metro lines are barely existent. It`s just a complete mess. A lot of people also seem to live in shanty towns. A lot of the money spent on the "new capital" could have been spent optimizing the public transport and just giving away housing to the poor in order get rid of the ghettos and shanty towns.

[@anubisegy2002]

@@cowboybeboop9420 actually in Cairo we have a very good underground railroad the problem with Cairo that is so old city with over 30 million people any adjustments to the roads or public transportation affect other things

[@cowboybeboop9420]

@@anubisegy2002 From what I understand you have just 3 underground lines serving 20-30 million people. That`s not a lot.

[@AL-lh2ht]

@@cowboybeboop9420Egypt is in fact doing many many other infrastructure projects. They don’t get clicks though so he does not talk about them.

[@geoms6263]

Rich people deserve to raise their children in a clean and safe place with access to all facilities such as clean water and sewage. Respect.

[@TalesOfWar]

The wide boulevards and long straight streets with points you can easily see down them from to make protest more difficult is why Paris is designed the way it is after the revolution. You'll notice a lot of the big wide streets meet at large roundabouts, some of them with things that troops can shoot easily into crowds from.

[@OptimisticTacoTruck-bp4e]

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[@MariaGarcia-g2b2t2t]

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[@SueFerreira75]

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[@recklessroges]

Yes chompie, it is, once again your time to shine.

[@PsychoDude4rm818]

Simon says: Bohemian Grove, right now! Go Go Go

[@Majeerteenia]

That beautiful mosque and the community center cost around $48M. We'd like to see what NYC could offer.

[@IMeanMachine101]

Yeah but it was the aliens 😆

[@thepax2621]

"Egypt are building..." *Uhmm* Maybe you mean " *Egyptians* are building" or "Egypt *is* building" ?

[@somethingcraft3148]

Egypt the country is building a new capital. “The United States is building a new capital.” is correct English grammar, I’m assuming your not a native speaker.

[@thepax2621]

​@@somethingcraft3148The title of the video literally says "Egypt are building". "Is" would be correct, but they didn't write that. I'm assuming you're slow at this point

[@JakeTheTrouserSnake]

I have to ask, was the "white elephant" comment a reference to the ridiculous elephant monument Napoleon ordered to be built after he returned from exile? I find little easy to miss comments like that tend to have some of the most interesting stories behind them!

[@KevinCarter-s4r4r]

My cat looked at me as if to say, "Keep laughing man, this is my show!💚

[@zombie2011]

400 million isn't that bad for the Octagon, I thought it would be in the billions for such a large footprint

[@patrickguinnane]

Well, here in Ireland we are spending 3 BILLION euro on one children's hospital..just for perspective.... actually..the Irish children's hospital debacle would be a fantastic episode.

[@ManBearPigCreative]

Im pretty sure it was covered by one of his channels just within the past couple of days!

[@pbspbs9508]

This has already been covered. A huge waste of funds

[@Sarge-at-Large]

Isn’t leaving the poor behind literally part of the purpose of the city’s construction? 😅

[@MarloSoBalJr]

Insert: "All of the money spent building this boondoggle could have been put towards improving the livability conditions of Cairo' and Alexandria"

[@AL-lh2ht]

In reality Egypt has many other infrastructure projects being worked on.

[@neverconsidered2193]

Where'd you get that shirt (that you wear in the ad)? Don't worry, I won't wear it when we hang out

[@DavExtra]

It should logically be called New Memphis. That's a no brainer :)

[@paulgibson490]

Didn't the Scottish parliament cost over £300,000,000 to build to house the SNP.

[@tommix6016]

City of the Aten mk II, probably with the same longevity

[@andromedach]

Brazil pulled this off over sixty years ago.

[@roanwestraat9604]

I do these magaprojects in Satisfactory every day! Not so mega AFTER ALL HUH!

[@JPF1077]

Perhaps before bailing Egypt out again the IMF should require Egypt to turn over all earnings and control of the Suez Canal as collateral until they pay back their debt.

[@barta5ot-395]

The new world order wants the Suez Canal back so bad huh

[@AL-lh2ht]

You know most people are against colonialism right?

[@DeepSeaShark-z8v]

They don't take debt trap loans from the IMF most of their loans are from the US directly, and they'll never give up the canal. Also, colonialism is over, just like Europe

[@barta5ot-395]

@@JPF1077 also the imf doesn’t bail out countries it comes with strings attached all for measly 2-3 billion. Chevrolet got 10x that in 08

[@wilgarcia1]

welp lets hope it isn't going the way of "Forrest City"

[@JoséFerIzaparraga]

Please talk about the high speed rail in Indonesia 🇮🇩

[@knightsnight5929]

The one built by the Chinese? Why?

[@DJKinney]

It's funny that in the list of planned administrative cities you failed to mention Washington D.C.

[@somethingcraft3148]

That was more than a hundred years ago, Isn’t that comparable to the new Egyptian capital city.

[@thepax2621]

@@somethingcraft3148 Title still says "Egypt are building"

[@beezysbeatz4924]

Egypt IS building...

[@jasonneugebauer5310]

My question is how does Egypt produce enough resources to sustain its population? I feal like they are building for future resource collapse, and associated chaos and famine. I think that population control is a better sustainable solution when the country does not have sufficient resources to maintain growth.

[@ohhi1134]

is*

[@macbuff81]

Instead of investing their tax dollars in things like schools, public transit, cleaning up the air, and so on, they would rather waste it on pointless and wasteful vanity projects like this. Reminds me of the equally pointless city of Neom in Saudi Arabia. Priorities, priorities... Another good example of how the overreliance on the car destroys cities.

[@sailinbob11]

Kinda says something when you build a city knowing you will have to put down mass protests and designing it with putting down those protests as a major design factor.

[@AL-lh2ht]

This is Egypt. The they have coups every few years. They have never recovered the last one either.

[@KarlBunker]

How many Egypt are there?

[@victorangeles655]

Egypt is building a huge new capital city*.

[@TheRyanandRachael]

Older to him than it is to us in 2024? Somebody help me with this, how is that possible? Doesn't a city continue to get older?

[@flaneurpainter]

2008 sisi? ….

[@chadfansler1269]

Are you going to put it back up renamed😅

[@TimSedai]

Vanity project???

[@AL-lh2ht]

That only makes sense if you do no research.

[@LikeGG]

0:00 Yes, i can agree that Egypt is a country.

[@Ehabelsherbeeny]

8200

[@paularteau9482]

Egypt are? ...

[@stevenclark2232]

So instead of working on poverty they are moving away to a new police state city that they can feel safe in and avoid the poor

[@AL-lh2ht]

To be fair there is a coup attempt every few years.

[@stevematthews4489]

...and now the Houthis have cut their allowance in half. Yikes...

[@florabee9283]

Looks like it was designed by some late 1930s early 1940s German guys

[@thedeaddonkey8018]

Kinda rasied a question if education system sucks in Egypt?

[@robabramovitz5192]

You don’t mention Washington DC as another purpose built capitol city that was built away from other major cities in America. This is not a new phenomenon.

[@kevinchambers4416]

They are going to merge it with the Line?

[@AnonYmouS00816]

Different countries

[@AL-lh2ht]

@@AnonYmouS00816to them they are both Arabs so it’s basically the same in their mind.

[@K_B_H_]

Egypt are Building ... Egypt is Building. IS not ARE or Egyptians are building.

[@ashardalondragnipurake]

look at what all that green taxation buys you

[@cellamuert]

Egypt is*

[@cherylcrawford3581]

Came here to say the same thing😊. I wonder how long it will last uncorrected.

[@TheDanEdwards]

Nope. Egypt is a collective and using a verb form for plurals is perfectly fine, and preferred in the UK.

[@cherylcrawford3581]

@@TheDanEdwards thanks for letting me know! You learn something new every day.

[@cellamuert]

@@TheDanEdwards Egypt is a nation, a singular entity. You even wrote it as such in your reply. Why would you type it that way then argue otherwise?

[@unums]

3st!

[@tonyahinrichs8828]

Egypt are building?

[@uther10]

What a waste of money and resources.

[@TheDanEdwards]

0:52 "when Alexander the Great visited cairo's precursor Memphis the city was already older to him than it is to us in 2024"

[@EmperorShang]

Egypt are

[@Sarge-at-Large]

12:32 This mosque costs only 20 million dollars?? What a steal!! I guess labor must cost nearly nothing?!?

[@alexn5743]

I hate to make this "joke" but... Wouldn't be the first time in Egypts history big things were built with low labor costs!

[@tripwire3992]

Someones been watching "adam something"

[@DJKinney]

What does that mean?

[@AL-lh2ht]

Adam something the racist who straight up lies. Like in the Egypt video saying they should have reconverted egpts old rail system to high speed rail instead of build new high speed rail like they are doing now, when in a earlier vidoe adam explains himself that it’s not possible to “refurbish” old rail to be high speed because of gauge differences. Also he thinks expats are all white people when most expats are not white. It just means a worker from another country that are not citizens.

[@tripwire3992]

@@DJKinney adam already did a video on this i was pointing that out as a joke

[@high-captain-BaLrog]

Simon and his litany of channels have made videos about topics like these years prior

[@AL-lh2ht]

@@DJKinneyhe is a bigot that pretends to know about infrastructure projects but mostly complains about how cars, single family homes, and skyscrapers should be outlawed. Also he says expats means white people when that’s is usually not the case.

[@Menstral]

Egypt IS Egyptians are

[@johnkaeding784]

Egypt are or is?

[@tmappe]

Using are instead of is in the title is very English

[@edgarLV]

Waste of money by building city NOT for people. Typical "Wanna be Dubai".

[@AL-lh2ht]

Dubai is the third most visited city on earth last year and contains millions of people. Why lie? Is it because you are a racist? I bet next you’ll say dubai has no culture, then proclaim your not racist again.

[@AL-lh2ht]

There are several million people living in dubai.

[@edgarLV]

@@AL-lh2ht they have to move to Egypt now? I think Saudis before Mohammed bin Salman era had great concept how desert cities should be build. This Egyptian new city is totally not the way. It is huge, wide, expensive and not efficient.

[@dira2964]

And how will they afford it ?🤣

[@Slava-ukraini_]

Because they are siphoning all taxes to there to separate and protect themselves. Rich and corrupt.

[@stiffdarren]

2nd viewer

[@thegreenbean5891]

What a dump

[@bendershome4discountorphan859]

Is there should prolly fix the grammer

[@stiffdarren]

the city was older to him than it is to us. That is an illogical sentence, can someone please explain?! It doesnt make sense unless he is speaking to us from the future?!

[@petermainwaringsx]

I guess that the time of Alexander is further from us than the birth of Cairo was to him.

[@jairkoeiman3656]

​@@petermainwaringsx no, I think it was the opposite, the city was older to him than he is to us

[@HollowRangiku]

​@@jairkoeiman3656 Maybe? Memphis (2635 B.C.E) was 2,293 years old when Alexander invaded (332 B.C.E). "Age of Alexander" 332 B.C.E + 2024 C.E = 2356 years

[@null2470]

It's no great pyramid, let's be real.

[@brycecombs2868]

Stop foreign aid to Egypt and other Islamic states.😡

[@rubberroast1598]

Maybe free birth control would help solve their long term issues more cheaply

[@anubisegy2002]

Actually birth control methods in Egypt are very cheap and some types can be free by our health care system

[@AnonYmouS00816]

These people want children, so birth control isn't going to solve anything

[@knightsnight5929]

History had shown that educating women is always the best and most effective form of birth control.

[@AnonYmouS00816]

@@knightsnight5929 true

[@DeepSeaShark-z8v]

Sure and decline like Europe is

[@MarkDupuis-es2qd]

Egyptians are building* Egypt is building. What’s wrong with your ai? Not smart enough to grammar check?? 😂😂

[@anthonyC214]

I am confused. Why name your City "the 6th of October" for a war you caused and which you were totally defeated and embarrassed.

[@DeepSeaShark-z8v]

Same reason 🇮🇱 is acting in a way that guarantees its own end

[@AL-lh2ht]

@@DeepSeaShark-z8vyea by reacting to one of the worst terrorist attacked in human history. But then again you have no problem with that attack.

[@offzero88ixa-rxzz]

Israel’s city 🇮🇱

[@AnonYmouS00816]

Yeah, no

[@offzero88ixa-rxzz]

@@AnonYmouS00816 greater Isreal 🤘😈👇 🌍 𝖓𝖕𝖈 🤡 goyim cattle 🤑

[@offzero88ixa-rxzz]

@@AnonYmouS00816 Greater Israel 🇮🇱 project 🤘😈👇 🌍 𝖓𝖕𝖈 🤡 cattle 🤑 𝖌𝖔𝖞

[@OathTaker3]

Sounds like a Democrat scheme,🤔.

[@AL-lh2ht]

You said pretending republicans did not add all the debt.

[@knightsnight5929]

​@@AL-lh2htIndeed, 7.8 trillion added by Trump and his tax cuts for the super rich.

[@ScoriacTears]

12:57 . . . so like more than eleven tons, wow, that does sound heavy, it must emit huge amounts of Damoclesian wu, hope someone is scooping it all up, terrible waste if they aren't. . . . . .mmMMwahaHAHAHAAA, "BUUuurp!".

[@chuckzilla3000]

What is it with countries short on so many resources, and logistical reasons, building these ludicrously-sized, “Teh Biggest Evar!” buildings?

[@ecocodex4431]

Egypt are