Why Dubai's Man-Made Islands Are Still Empty

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In 2003, the construction of the multi-billion dollar investment project “The World” was announced. The man-made archipelago shaped like a map of the earth was planned to feature luxurious houses and tourist-resorts located all within just a short boat ride from Dubai. But today, more than 10 years after the completion of these islands, there is hardly anything built on them. What happened here?
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[@raphael5165]

A city should never be built to look good from the sky. It should be built to look good from the perspective of the people walking through its streets.

[@johnsMITHhhhhh88]

Yeah cool aerial photos will attract a lot of publicity, but the people who will actually buy and develop it are going to travel there and all they will see are giant piles of sand in the sea

[@angelofdeath275]

@@cannabico6621 No.

[@luizcastro5246]

Try the other million cities on earth if that's what you're looking for

[@frds_skce]

@@luizcastro5246 You're telling the multi-millionaire people to not spend money on lands (or islands in this case) in dubai? They'll happily walk far away from those sand islands, i tell you

[@ezookami4540]

@@frds_skce they will not cos this is not prestigious at all and it is all about prestige. Those island have really bad press, so being an owner of such an island will give you nothing but bad press. First of all you associate yourself with regime and second you support environment devastation ( yep, they built islands on coral reefs and waters are polluted with poo) So multi-millionaire people will do business with Saudi, but will not buy a pile of sinking sand that is ugly AF.

[@user-hl7bw8yw7n]

Fun fact - a coral reef was buried underneath the sand in order for this abomination to be built.

[@melonieashway4189]

That's not fun at all..... :(

[@ariarad7986]

That’s real sad. They will be punished for their actions if they don’t stop. The ocean needs coral, you can’t just kill it.

[@_Just_Another_Guy]

@@ariarad7986 You mean WE will be punished for their actions. We all share the oceans and any imbalance in one region would eventually affect the entire Earth's oceans.

[@ariarad7986]

@@_Just_Another_Guy It will punish us as well, but as long as they make these islands, they will face consequences too. They can’t revert their actions, and neither can we.

[@ethansprojects7399]

That’s sad

[@SwayTree]

Few years ago my company was doing a project for a client in Dubai. I spend a lot of time there and also learned a lot about the place. The people there are greedy, extremely greedy. And they seem not to plan too much in advance. The city itself is quite old because it was a port city. The most cosmopolitan in that part of the world. They used to have pearls there but they were so agressive in getting them that oysters went extinct in that area. They had oil. Exploited it so much that they have none now. They have no respect for the nature. They use it, use it and use it. They have this mindset that everything and everyone should serve them if they consider them inferior. There is no gratidute towards anything. People or environment. Everything is disposable. A building was on fire? Let's leave it and build a new one. Everything must look expensive but when you take a closer look it is very tacky. There is a huge waste of space (inside the buildngs, outside areas). They serve no purpose they are just meant to look "rich". But it is all the surface, everything is empty inside. Even if you go on top of Burj Kalifa you quickly realize that it isn't worth it because you won't see anything interesting (and it was around $50 at that time). The whole city is just a golden empty shell. No soul, no value.

[@thetruthwillsetyoufree4781]

You sound really jealous, mate. Stay where you are, I mean this lousy rathole you're living in.

[@81crispy]

Yeah I made the mistake of going to work there as a barman….they take away your passport and basically hold you captive for 3 years,I got myself fired on purpose after just under a year and got kicked out,was a happy moment

[@mikejones-go8vz]

It’s only a stopover on the way to something better for me 😳

[@Peter_van_bjork]

Well described 👍 I don’t understand people that want to visit this country. It has no interesting culture, Building a fake archipelago.. i mean wtf 🙈

[@zachariahtitus1210]

Wow! Well said. I don’t know much about this topic ….but I understand what you mean to say. Superb!

[@tylerhutchinson5154]

Dubai is a perfect example of why consolidating wealth in the hands of a few can be devastating. Especially when those individuals are rich largely by virtue of what family they are born into. God damn we suck as a species sometimes.

[@robotnoir5299]

It's actually an example of what a corrupt government will do. Consolidating wealth into the hands of morons who didn't earn it.

[@drakonsdi]

Sometimes?

[@thatpeskyrat]

@@drakonsdi yeah, sometimes. for every piece of shit rich person there’s plenty of good people out there

[@moquilla1]

Sometimes? Lol people have always been awful.

[@sanaburton9229]

Dubai kind of feels like an experiment in what happens when you give people too much money.

[@MrScottmoad]

No doubt.

[@Mephitinae]

Dubai was dirt poor prior to the 1960s. Then the elite got rich with oil in a couple of years. Incidentally, UAE is probably the country that will suffer the most from covid-19 economically. Easy come, easy go, as they say.

[@SuperKelbe]

Like the stupid shit lottery winners buy.

[@prabhukiranz]

but if they(who has money) kinda... spend on this kinda shit ONLY...... the world n poor like us gets employment right ??? do u think they are building with their own sweet sweat ?

[@sanaburton9229]

@@prabhukiranz The problem is that Dubai doesn't really fall into standard employment patterns, either. To accomplish such ambitious things so fast, despite having a pretty small population, they rely heavily on migrant construction workers, who are treated fairly abysmally. Dubai unfortunately has made "excessive wealth" its cultural identity in an unsustainable way.

[@lw3269]

Can you imagine what would happen if this money was spent on improving the planet and people's lives?

[@n18rayah]

Exactly 👍 But least do they care!

[@twitzmixx8374]

exactly,

[@minglin2814]

Let's start from America

[@ahmadjauhar4562]

Then don't even have any useless military

[@Billswiftgti]

one would argue that these investments could bring enough profit to contribute to the world, but not only I highly doubt it, I also despise such cringe displays.

[@christya2488]

I'm reminded of a line from a movie I once saw. It's something like "Land is a good investment because it's the one thing they're not making anymore." You can't really create sustainable land. Mother nature will always have her way.

[@zackakai5173]

As an American, I'm almost happy Dubai exists for no other reason than it means we don't have the worst-designed cities in the world.

[@wiseauserious8750]

Haha I cosign to that my American brotha

[@TooColdProdz]

Dubai literally took all of the American planning mistakes made in the past and combined it all in one city. 16 lane freeways, soulless suburbia, car dependency… literally everything

[@Mordecrox]

Weren't some of those "flaws" intentional? I mean I get the feeling that Dubai lacks planning while some American cities had it by intentional design and technically their goal was achieved but these weren't good goals. Cul de sacs. Made with the objective to make traffic slower, traffic became slower, um, mission accomplished? Dunno why you wanted that in the first place but well done

[@autograndeunlimited]

​@@TooColdProdzno they didn't. How is it soulless better than tiny box Europe. 😂

[@TooColdProdz]

@@autograndeunlimited not all the suburbs are souless but when you see some of these new developments… they all look the same, no variation. This is coming from a us native so I’m not hating

[@thenebbishroute]

What's stupid is that it would only take a handful of marine and shoreline scientists to explain why this project wouldn't work out.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

Interesting point! Perhaps one could have ensured a somewhat stronger water circulation that still would have stayed weak enough?

[@XThexReaperX]

@@HansDunkelberg1 mangrove trees would be the answer to the erosion of the sand islands, with coral catchers(that is to say arm thick poles of concrete that you can either tie living coral to so that it grows on and off of the poles or stack it against said poles) set out to act as a growing coral reef/shelf to prevent the sand from escaping too easily. All that would be needed after that would be enough channels(hopefully with excellent erosion preventing plants that can turn the sand into something more substantial. Hawaii has a grass that's root system stretches down 25 feet and are as stong as steel) to allow the water to ebb and flow, though that would require more knowledge on water circulation than I have.

[@PhonciblePBonehimself]

@@XThexReaperX the simple solution is: don‘t do it at all

[@XThexReaperX]

@@PhonciblePBonehimself don't do what at all? Build the construction in the first place? Attempt to try and solve the issue in the first place? Seek expert advice on what is possible? I am actually curious to know, because a simple solution does not make it the right one. Neither does a complex one make it right. I agree that they shouldn't have done it in the first place, but what is done is done and their is not bottling back up the spilled milk.

[@cannonfodder9248]

A handful? It would only take 1!

[@KatGlos]

Living in Dubai as a child, the shells I collected on Jumeirah beach were all covered with tar while I saw the dredges at work out at The World. These projects are so damaging to the environment, and it was all in vain.

[@ladytee4269]

😪😪

[@Ragerian]

@@perspectivetheories7435 you heard it here first folks, ZDM_CB saw nothing with his own eyes!!

[@venus189]

I know. The people want money and think this is the way to a happy life

[@lifegoeson1007]

ZDM_CB if you’re there and you see nothing, then what are you standing on? 🧐

[@strangulator123]

Well, these projects are also vain, so no wonder they were eventually in vain, iykwim? *huehuehue*

[@justdoingitjim7095]

At the start of the 2008 financial crash I was installing cabinets in new homes. Fewer homes were being built, so my work slowed. But, for some reason some people kept starting housing developments as if the crash never happened. I installed the cabinets on several of their model homes and for years afterward would drive by and see those model homes standing guard over a sea of empty overgrown weed lots. They even quit mowing the yards of the model homes and I wondered if the "homeowners association" would send them threatening letters! But then I remembered that field mice and rabbits can't read!

[@AdamMGTF]

And America wondered why the housing system/market collapsed.😢

[@ksc743]

I wonder if there are even any field mice or rabbits left in Dubai?

[@umadbra]

Stagnant water? I am not an engineer and I thought about how was the water going to circulate like that. Wow, great job!

[@Predator20357]

The first problem was the fact they made things that look nice from above, it shows that they are more interested in things looking pretty instead of functional

[@gerald5561]

Exactly like where we’re the engineers and smart people in this project? Did they get stuck under the concrete?

[@Predator20357]

@@gerald5561 They weren’t allowed to tell the artists “No dude, Land isn’t just something you can slap on and expect it to stick”

[@MacXpert74]

That's the problem with unlimited control by people that have too much money and no knowledge and won't take 'no' for an answer. It doesn't end well.

[@shtarkloff]

It's eastern mentality

[@Predator20357]

@@shtarkloff Woah dude, I seen things just as dumb as this in the West Like ElonMusks projects

[@peterkelly8357]

this is what happens when you have more money than sense

[@outofcontext728]

Than planing

[@outstretchedwings]

I believe one of the rich idiots who bought a plot of land on the World later killed himself.

[@ALQQ]

Nah thats just in Dubai 💀 I feel like the “World” was their lowkey only failure for now since they did make so much successful stuff

[@figgi_myestrio5092]

@@ALQQ r/wooosh

[@ALQQ]

@@figgi_myestrio5092 stfu i just realised 💀

[@Urugami45]

On another note, these island projects used so many dredging vessels, that it was difficult for Louisiana to find any to rebuild the coastline after Katrina.

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

Definitely my worst ever trip. I got recommended to go to Dubai by a Moroccan stewardess I met in Bali and I've never seen somewhere so fake, it's like spoilt brats trying to outdo each other in a boiling hot sand pit in the middle of nowhere

[@fryzee9789]

Sounds a lot like Vegas

[@karenw1706]

That is how I describe it to people- a super sized Las Vegas!

[@berandal99]

Indonesia has more than 17000 natural islands and most of them are empty. Perfect tropical weather, cheap currency, delicious foods, friendly people, famous tourist destinations, strategic geographical hub. And these investors choose to put their money on artificial islands next to a desert.

[@gilldominicmendoza5202]

I'd rather have those island be untouch thanks.

[@nurphurecarnium]

Wich indonesian islands are you referring at? All of them? They surely don't have those characteristics you pointed out. Beside, indonesian people are not a big fan of foreign investors.

[@nurphurecarnium]

Also, those man made island are next to one of the richest city in the world, while Indonesian-untouched Island are next to nothing.

[@berandal99]

@@nurphurecarnium which characteristic that they don't have? All of them?

[@berandal99]

@@gilldominicmendoza5202 I do not agree, but I understand. I don't want to see the next Bali either. That Island is a victim of it's own beauty. But I'm sure we can do it differently.

[@zupurfeg89]

This islands project to me is a mixture of arrogance and really bad taste

[@perpetuated]

And no culture

[@Shady36]

Farming, aqua culture, education, healthcare, water sustainability. Sigh, priorities.

[@bigman-em7cc]

Mad because you could never afford it.

[@silviad3049]

Why? Like it is totally creative

[@zupurfeg89]

@@silviad3049 if your comment is a reply to mine i would say that being creative does not mean to have good taste or being humble. So yes, they have been creative, and i also say arrogant because they thought that just because they have a lot of money they can disregard the ecosystem by doing whatever they want with it - a symptom of the underlying philosophy that is one of the causes of climate change (everything for profit!). Bad taste because to me it's cheap - an attempt at saying "look, we have the whole world here! we aren't just a country built on petrodollars!" - instead of doing something original, like a project expression of their culture they decided for the blandest, safest, most banal thing they could come up with. And i think i get why - to show grandiosity and neutrality in order to hide and make people forget their problems with human rights (who do you think built the islands?at what cost?). TL:DR - we are so rich that we do as we please, no responasbility towards nothing and nobody On the positive side - not being an expert in island making - this experiment may have some useful results, data or techinques in that field - something that may prove valuable with a rising sealevel

[@kre9]

Ah, nothing sets the mood like sailing by multiple barren sandy lots on the way to your resort island surrounded by stagnant water.

[@jmg999]

This was another informative, educational piece of content from you, and I look forward to watching much more.

[@OnyxSilas]

Imagine having a private island like five feet from somebody else’s “private” island lol

[@AntonSoundcheck]

It's basically like living in a flooded suburb. ;)

[@diegosalgado7501]

😂

[@xxBrokenDreams666xx]

yeah, more like a neighborhood lol. might as well live in a marina for that much

[@nigerianprincess101]

It’s really impossible to get a scale for these islands from what we’ve seen.

[@E_B-]

Lol 😆🤣

[@SacsachCCABP]

“I live on the Netherlands” “Which city?” “Dubai”

[@shrxyeah6264]

😂😂😂😂

[@muhammadfiras4784]

I see what u did there

[@nixonn3]

"I like the Netherlands..." " do you mean Holland?" "Who are the Dutch?"

[@ct8092]

Sort of living in Paris. “France?” “No. China.”

[@dyu999]

'i live at Cambridge' 'which city?' "Dongguan China" 'Cambridge Coaching Centre"

[@kloppskalli]

I've seen this when it was first released 2 years ago. Still worth watching again. 😊

[@JO-kp6lk]

"What went wrong ?" Well, taking a look at them, what could possibly have gone right ?

[@jesusramos778]

They are just like kids realizing their sand castles don’t last.

[@beldiman5870]

Well, the sand castle comparison could also apply to the financial market before the 2008 crisis

[@getchasome6230]

Bel, that was 10 years ago and were already recovered from that thanks to Donald Trump

[@dogman8339]

@@getchasome6230 hahahahaha. No

[@getchasome6230]

@@dogman8339 who did it then?

[@getchasome6230]

@@dogman8339 I'm still waiting. (Cue the insults)

[@danielcardwell5457]

The sheer amount of environmental and ethical issues this raises is completely mind blowing, this is a perfect example of how you can't bend all the rules of nature, it will bite back eventually.

[@chriscanfly6386]

I mean it.. wasn't a horrible idea

[@JesusBichito99]

But they did when they created male gods and became the only homophobic animals that justify marrying cousins 💀

[@arjanpetersen]

There is limited amount of environmental, and ethical issues. Here in Netherlands we have done this massively

[@YouTubePurgetheblackplague]

Then the rising ocean

[@Philemaphobia]

We learned about reef building to be honest. The ocean building projects always aimed to be ecological sane, they only used natural materials to build the island, not even concrete. Did Flora and Fauna change? Absolutely. The area had been flat sea ground, now it’s a reef, sea grass is growing that wasn’t there before. Arguably the marine biology got better (as long as there is no one living to pollute the area) Very likely the islands will ‚grow together‘ as they stopped clearing the waterways in between (it’s already happening) and Dubai will just have three big promontories (? Had to Google this word, it’s ‚Land Tongue‘ in my language) and the reef-like marine biology will change back to ‚normal‘. Other than some huge dam projects, the island did not change world climate, which got us one step closer to safe ways of terraforming.

[@robotic_musings]

Hi. Love the video. The CC is off from the video. It needs to be synced up with the video.

[@goldenmawar5589]

Thank you for adding Malay subtitle!

[@shanghainese7198]

500 years from now: people say aliens built these islands

[@ultra_human8085]

Haha😅

[@fart_balls_]

Stolen

[@shanghainese7198]

@@fart_balls_ wdym this is stolen. When i was watching this video this was what i first commented. If someone else said something similar, apologies, but i didn’t steal a comment as this was what i thought of.

[@Poisindart2000]

Those islands will not last 500 years lol

[@ultra_human8085]

@@Poisindart2000 it can survive underwater

[@shan2fly993]

The Earth has enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not for every man's greed. -Mahatma Gandhi

[@okaycook1307]

*Laughs in Elon Musk*

[@spicy1603]

Absolutely true man.

[@rebeccaconlon9743]

Depends on how many of Man there is...

[@crippledegg9815]

“Love is trash, bitches need cash.” - Mahatma Ghandi

[@arigande5602]

@@crippledegg9815 I don't know either to laugh or cry

[@TobiasSchoenke]

This was great - Thanks

[@indianlionbro7857]

This would be the greatest destination on Earth. A true experience of a lifetime. Wow going across the world without going across the world.

[@jaxager]

I can't believe that someone didn't realize that adding those breakwater islands would make the inner water stagnant. I grew up around the Mississippi gulf coast and the beaches there suck. It's because of the barrier islands a couple of miles off the coastline. Go beyond those barrier islands and the water is beautiful, clear, has surf, and is blue. Along the coastline there are no waves and the water is brown. I certainly wouldn't want to spend millions of dollars on a house located on brown, stagnant, still water.

[@yeemawheaver1387]

Yea, they didn't think this through. I feel like the people who did this were trying to live a childhood dream that wouldn't ever stand in the real world.

[@existenceisrelative]

Maybe they were aiming for the wealthy mosquito demographic.

[@shallwegettit7874]

@@yeemawheaver1387 what kid would grow up and not want to live in a palace surrounded by gross brown Stillwater

[@yeemawheaver1387]

@@shallwegettit7874 most kids who grew up mentally as well as physical which the constructors obviously skipped the mental part.

[@jaxager]

@@icomestrong3783 Good. I didn't know if I was sufficiently conveying it through a KZbin comment.

[@AlexisDouFlo]

Mother Earth was like "I'm not into tattoos, thank youuu!"

[@aboysarchives]

Lmao

[@kaviyap5171]

👌😅

[@christianj252]

Then the sea rose and washed away the tattoos.

[@silic8873]

dam

[@kaverigupta9961]

😂😂👍

[@cmwHisArtist]

The uninhabited sand areas would make a fun dirt bike park, if it wasn’t so hot.

[@staffiemama]

Congratulations 🎊 great video.

[@ToastyFresh1]

When you start building a huge project in your Minecraft world but lose motivation and are too lazy to take it down.

[@danialasyraf8527]

@The Knight of Nightmares no one asked

[@reddiamond6148]

@@danialasyraf8527 No one ask your opinion

[@shaikhamj]

HAHHAHA I CANT

[@Tyrashabrooks]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😆😆😆

[@stfano98]

And change it into a gulag for villagers

[@MrDlt123]

Imagine that youre rich enough to own an island but your neighbor on another island plays their music too damn loud.

[@jerseyjunior]

lol

[@vinster8884]

When I listen to Slayer, my neighbors do too. 👍

[@mikekaatman3194]

Best comment yet..bravo!!

[@jjano2320]

If the price for lots keep going down I might move my trailer home there.

[@gunsmokeandghouls]

LOL 😆

[@wayneparkinson4558]

i heard it was to do with the stench for the circulation had been cut of or people just want a island much further away than you think in there minds

[@Marcus-cc72]

The entire city (or even country) were planned with help from consultants. These people are smart - good at constructing a business case and proving on paper that it works. Problem is they never see to it till the end - so the implementation falls onto the sponsors of the projects who were neither skilled enough nor have enough care to it. If something breaks then it get blamed on communication breakdown.

[@rawanmohamed5923]

it looks like a project I’d do in my Minecraft world,,

[@Meetyouthere777]

Very similar indeed

[@schwarzerritter5724]

I was thinking Doshin the Giant, but Minecraft fits too.

[@lukajovanovski1178]

Same and it even looks like the projects after u realise they look way uglier in real life then in imagination after u complete them

[@haziqazhad4185]

hye tae

[@kevind7617]

Wuv.. Twoo Wuv..

[@Jasonlimitless]

Those islands look like the most impractical places to live in the world.

[@ENGINEERINGSPIRIT]

Hahahaa

[@Tokito935]

They are

[@Jasonlimitless]

So even tho you live right by a massive city you're really isolated and it's extremely inconvenient logistically, and altho you live on an island you're a stone's throw and in view of the mainland.. worst of both worlds 🤦‍♂️🤣

[@kosmas173]

They are supposed to be marketed for rich people that don't care about those inconveniences.

[@planescaped]

@@kosmas173 Or about their entire property sinking beneath the water after a decade.

[@mountainman9145]

Fun Fact: Because this region is situated in the dessert and therefore experiences extreme heat they named the area the UAE which is an acronym for : United Air-conditioning Empire as every dwelling requires air conditioning to survive.

[@TotallyAHuman]

the English (US) subtitles are timed incorrectly; they appear before the audio

[@MichelleOfDarkness]

Reminds me of a quote: 'You were too busy thinking you could, you didn't stop to think you should?' (Yeah. I know I've butchered the quote. I was tired and lazy to look up the quote. Real quote below:) DesertStateInEU: (Found exact quote) "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didnt stop to think if they should "

[@antpoo]

Peak Prosperity 😂

[@mmjn97]

Damn

[@kathleenr4047]

Well, you messed up the quote. It's "You were SO busy figuring out if you COULD, you didn't stop to think IF you should?" Also acceptable, "You didn't stop to think, should you?"

[@MichelleOfDarkness]

@@kathleenr4047 Thanks for the correction. It's later here, I was too lazy to look up the exact quote, and was basically just saying the gist of it.

[@nsdfancy]

MichelleOfDarkness well they should because if it’s finished there will be WAY MORE tourist attraction, and Dubai gets most of its money from tourists.

[@BiohChemicalz]

It’s all fun and games till the sea level rises

[@justainternetwonderer1273]

BiohChemicalz best comment

[@lemappeur1331]

Fun Fact: There was actually a plan for an iceberg to be towed to the UAE, if it had actually happened, then...

[@protonneutron9046]

ACTUALLY, the sea level hasn't risen measurably since WW2. The Onion is calling you BiohChemicalz

[@user-hq9lq2tp1m]

I hope soo

[@funngy1122]

Proton Neutron mabye not where you live it has not but it is very noticable in smaller island nations

[@cmwHisArtist]

Does the area ever get any coastal storms? I’ve never seen many people enjoying the outdoors there….how hot is if? Lots of buildings for the few cars on the highways. So interesting.

[@isabellawhittemore4808]

I randomly found this on google maps years and years ago, I cannot even tell you how confused I was.

[@anthonybanks4568]

Building artificial islands when u still have plenty of undeveloped beachfront coastline makes no sense.

[@anwarullahraza5455]

Well ,if the did not had sense , then dubai could not have flourished

[@anthonybanks4568]

@@anwarullahraza5455 Dubai flourishes only because of oil, not because of good leadership.

[@anwarullahraza5455]

Well check the stats now oil contributes to 3% of their gdp

[@anthonybanks4568]

@@anwarullahraza5455 your being a bit cheeky here Anwarullah. That’s like saying Microsoft has nothing to do with Bill Gates wealth because he left them years ago lol.

[@anwarullahraza5455]

Dude iam trying to say they utilised their resources properly or else Venezuela could have been the Dubai which we have now

[@jfloresmac]

- " I have a trillion dollars and dont know what to do with them" - " Do you wanna pour sand from the desert into the ocean?" - "Sounds good"

[@DjamieA]

Its actually sucked up from the ocean floor if im not mistaken

[@kaanosphere]

@@DjamieA yep, it's true. They fucked up the ocean, twice!

[@nifunifa6231]

They bought the sand from australia i think

[@youaintasbadasyouthink]

The deserts used to be under the ocean, they've found whale fossils in them before

[@jfloresmac]

@@DjamieA "Or do you wanna suck sand from the ocean floor and put it somewhere else on the ocean?" "Sure, why not"

[@vatsmith8759]

The phrase 'more money than sense' springs to mind.

[@Matthew-ut6ed]

That perfect last sentence - "What happens when the city stops being built and just has to be lived..."

[@georgeirwin3511]

Let me get this right. Did you say that it is SAND piled up in water, with tides all around eroding the edges? I'm going to pass on those luxury lots as an investment opportunity!

[@Sashstashreview]

I’m trying to figure out how do you build an island???

[@TheLalalalani]

Yeah they've been sinking back into the ocean for years. I got super into the palms in high school lol

[@matildabishops9196]

@@operator6438 …Hope They Can Swim! Lol

[@elokin300]

When I was little my parents showed me a bible story about two men. One built his house on a stone island and the other on a pile of sand. When a storm came, the sand island sunk. Don’t remember what it had to do with god, but at least its relevant now

[@PatinaEdochie]

@@elokin300 I thought about that biblical example/parable too 💯 Jesus gave a sermon on this about “building” your life on a firm foundation by following God’s teachings as if placing your life on a Rock being a wise builder versus a foolish builder building on sand. When stuff happens in your life exemplified by the wind blowing, floods coming etc, your “house” or what you’re building will stand firm through it and not be destroyed/washed away. So yes Jesus liked to speak in parables, comparisons metaphors etc to hopefully make it make sense 💯🙏🏽💓

[@anthonyw9129]

200 years from now: it was aliens

[@goeke1526]

Best comment everr

[@bickieditch9168]

Underrated

[@ManaSamaLover.]

LMAO

[@unknownmotherkoose8868]

Don't forget that the show will be collapsing after a local man said well, they just throw sands with a machine to build it one by one.

[@Bellapink96]

Atlantis

[@ferrellsl]

Getting utilities to these islands is absurdly expensive, not to mention that residents also need an expensive boat to reach shore and a place to dock said boat. Then they need a parking space and a car near the dock so they can go about their business on the mainland. Not to mention that you're stranded on your island during inclement weather or stranded on the mainland if you didn't beat the storm home. I guess this is par for the course when you consider they were engineered by desert dwellers who lived their entire lives in a desert wasteland.

[@TG_Extra]

Why are the subtitles out of sync? Can you fix it?

[@ilikepigeons6101]

As much of a stupid idea it was, it's sad seeing an almost completed massive project like this abandoned and forgotten

[@dominikamelnik7120]

Abondeden3dendned

[@ilikepigeons6101]

@@dominikamelnik7120 whoopsie thanks

[@Erysea]

Better stop the loss than lose more. A well known psychological mechanism would compel people to keep investing as it's almost completed, but if you have nothing to win, you need to stop. If the balance is negative, you need to stop.

[@ilikepigeons6101]

@@Erysea well said

[@gramursowanfaborden5820]

i don't think it's sad, i think it's vindicating.

[@ermatthe]

The fact they opened an Atlantis hotel there is fitting. Dubai might end up being a real life Atlantis with the way they've changed their coast line.

[@khemakhema1432]

so the Atlantis they have been looking for is yet to be submerged.....but let's hope not and yet we can never tell, only the sea can tell

[@takeapieandrun]

Atlantis is on the Palm, which has tons of hotels, restaurants, etc

[@bucket8849]

and they say arabs are terrorists

[@SkyRecruit18]

Speaking of Atlantis some research lines with it being the Sahara desert eye. Bright insight has a better description than my own

[@zarkuz8702]

I stayed at Atlantis for a week it was amazing

[@k_1watker]

is it just me or Dubai would have the most craziest builds ever just like the deepest pool and the biggest building

[@haishhaihhh9137]

Islands are barriers towards external forces, wether natural or Man-inflicted. It is mentioned, to avoid erosion of the beaches. Besides that, it becomes a shield against any future enemies before they really land on the mainland. Islands also mark the territory of a nation. No one really knows the other signficances of these barriers as specified by their design and construction, except those who had planned them. Now, this approach have been adopted by many other nations, for similar purposes. The difference is that, Dubai made them under the guise of attractive tourist attractions. Others made them just as floaters, some say as stopovers for their fishermen.

[@GrumpSkull]

Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually - Jimi Hendrix.

[@Hirenji]

You just want attention -charlie puth (ik its so random)

[@mastube7642]

Nice

[@bekaanderson5122]

Matthew 7:24-27 24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”

[@Hollidayze]

Love this

[@karelnevenzoon1230]

🤘🏻

[@jon8833]

They had so much money they started pouring sand into the ocean.

[@salman4088]

It is a gulf not ocean

[@Dreamcatcher0007]

They were so out of work ala Vella

[@ronlyon4645]

corona: let me introduce myself

[@Fsrjtyttzma]

Dredged......not poured.

[@cerving20]

@Nicks Kicks No it aint.

[@vivekkb07]

The subtitles are completely out of sync. @neo please update.

[@lizd2943]

"We have all this open area we can build in." "Let's make artificial islands!"

[@macdeuce1008]

Imagine the world islands going to war between each other

[@uneazypolarb7691]

Lol they would use water guns

[@ceruleanfish6703]

@@uneazypolarb7691 Super squirters at 25 paces :D ... I have this image of world leaders in their fancy suits dueling now. What a huge belly laugh I had. Bests~

[@professorhoodoo]

lol

[@BOBMARLEYY007]

with full of shitty bags...

[@dereenaldoambun9158]

Nuclear missiles: I'mma roasts all these son of bitches.

[@samuraifis]

I was only a teen back then, and I remember thinking, that’s such a horrible idea.

[@analyticalhabitrails9857]

Same.

[@tahaakram5542]

Same

[@Orchidlettux]

Exactly, I wish they’d created something else

[@tahaakram5542]

They could have given aid to a poor muslim nation for make there countrey less dependent on oil but they thought it is a good idea to just throw sand into the sea

[@CindyWarren2004]

I didnt even exist

[@MyButtercup]

Where would they get the utilities from? Besides the seas rising will sink these sand bars.

[@arfriedman4577]

I think Dubai would be an interesting place to visit. Maybe one day.

[@zcrib3]

I love how they don't have proper sewage treatment over there, but build man-made islands and dumbass skyscrapers.

[@cashkitty3472]

You mean they want it to look pretty but not have proper infrastructure.

[@betonblack3621]

There’s nothing wrong with beautiful architecture but you must take care of the infrastructure first.

[@the1mexicant]

The good thing is you can shit in the street if you can’t make it back to the hotel

[@TheBasedCanadian]

They were jealous of the west and wanted it too

[@OmarAhmed-re7gw]

Tell me about it 🐱🐱

[@SubscriberswithnovideosC-ok7wv]

Dubai’s like that one kid in the class project who has a really cool idea but one that’s also pointless.

[@Miyakolover]

And has other people who are more talented doing his homework in exchange for money.

[@DragoneedZ]

@Andy im not sure why are you so butthurt , but dubai income from oil is less than 5% so your butthurt argument is invalid my friend

[@taehokang2551]

You’re like that one kid in class that has to point out everything

[@lavenderlizzi9269]

Let’s fill our trash here!

[@Fsrjtyttzma]

Meanwhile other so called “first world countries are handing out food parcels as their white middle class line up”

[@neilg6675]

What affect does this have on sea levels? The water has go go somewhere as its just been displaced. It's happening alot these days, particularly in Asia, it must be having a negative affect

[@konozal1880]

Someone once said something about building on shifting sands, cants remember sure it isn’t important

[@ag1806]

This seems like playing SIM City in real life. Starting off Grand Projects and then not knowing whether it would go ahead as planned....

[@thesaint8400]

Playing with cheat money

[@yudhiadhyatmikosiswono9082]

Don't forget to add Tsunami just for fun.

[@hstibuspoenas8406]

Exactly

[@rizkyluthfina6814]

yudhi adhyatmiko siswono damn!😂

[@swatsa4460]

Nah it feels like cities skylines cuz cities skylines is like sim city but realistic

[@julieathome7793]

A classic example of “just because you can doesn’t mean you should”

[@r1ckySV]

Genius

[@beachblues2155]

😂🤣 Well said!

[@cemsengul16]

Jurassic Park

[@worscohli]

Yup!!!

[@NextToToddliness]

I find it wholely ironic that the thing that amassed Dubai's wealth will eventually cause their empire to collapse.

[@theharvestfloor1]

I reckon if you hadn't told me they were meant to resemble the world map, I never would have guessed. As It barely resembles it.

[@Swagtildawn]

Not the point but now Dubai just has these billion dollar eye sores. They could have the beautiful waterfront but now they have giant sand dumps.

[@wasdwazd]

Especially 'The World'. They couldn't even be bothered to make the outline of that ugly thing straight and even.

[@donkeythong4081]

Should stick to drilling holes . With all their wealth, this is the best they could come up with?

[@LTGvideos]

@@wasdwazd I think that's so boats can get through, while the outline still protects the interior from waves and such.

[@katie1925]

@@LTGvideos i guess that would lessen the need for oil unless all the millionaires and the ppl living there buy their own personal yachts

[@katie1925]

Idk. I visited palm jumeirah it was like a small adult version of Disney world and with more gold

[@luckyme1980dw]

Moral of story: Arrogant idea... Humbling outcome.

[@josepho3366]

It was just a waste of time at the end without any smart planing.

[@tanmeysaraiya2236]

There’s just a thing about Dubai that makes it feel so robotic and dead. The city feels soulless

[@countryjoe3551]

The Line in Saudi Arabia feels like a project with just about the same chance at actually succeeding as this debacle.

[@actaemazantor9558]

Dubai is literally humankind's ode to its own decadence.

[@cashkitty3472]

Twinned with Vegas

[@EricAkif]

...and demise.

[@morgothfromangband6082]

And incompetence.

[@GoinMLG]

@@cashkitty3472 At least Vegas understands it's place.

[@damienturner6368]

Exactly. Reminds me of those artificially beautiful glass houses with little comfort and practicality... to the point where all houses look alike. Soul-less and lacking character, history and memories.

[@janicemars2952]

Wow, these look like cultured bacteria in a petri dish.

[@suefernandes8582]

🤣🤣🤣

[@diamondunicorn2421]

That’s what I said. Doesn’t look appealing to the eye from above.

[@ShuChak_opinion]

You are a true biologist,

[@wilanmarino1737]

Gwapa

[@janicemars2952]

Unseelie Court sounds legit! 🤣

[@arfriedman4577]

Much success and health to all.

[@deeqahmed2291]

How would u get running water there? My first question

[@afon_s]

- Why Dubai's man-made islands are still empty? - Because it was a stupid idea. Directed by Robert B. Weide

[@sentaiaddict]

L

[@Nietabs]

Your meme is outdated

[@thevapingcat6525]

Not funny

[@HumtySwag]

It wasn't Stupid Idea because Of Underground Basement Connected to Pakistan and Turkey

[@dannyherrera1598]

More like "Written, Produced & Directed by M. Night Shyamalan" 💀😂

[@Duncan_Idaho_Potato]

Expectation: A luxurious palace on a private tropical island paradise. Reality: A McMansion on a hill of wet sand surrounded by a stagnant saltwater moat.

[@mikekaatman3194]

You summed that up nicely.

[@jerimow8400]

Well said!!

[@complimentary_voucher]

This is almost always the reality. See: almost all new-build suburbs 🤮

[@Jonesy_Ripley]

😬

[@bigboymatthew7471]

Basically one company just building whatever comes up in the owner's head without thinking of the difficulties

[@iiiiii7680]

Quite random but it would be kind of funny if the "world" islands started beefing and causing war/conflict

[@damy3179]

the subtitle is wrongly displayed

[@belphy205]

I’ve stayed at the Atlantis. The water park was awesome, but most of what I remember is getting heat exhaustion and the hotel sending up a doctor free of charge. Good times

[@matthewbelanger535]

haha wtf man

[@thelegendofthem6120]

Glad you're better.

[@MyStupidYoutubeHandle]

I wanna visit Dubai so bad lol I feel like it’s the perfect place to go skydiving or something for the first time

[@justin4347]

@@MyStupidKZbinHandle never really got to visit but i stopped at the airport on the way to somewhere else and I had time to take just a peek at the city and it was crazyyyy, and the airport itself is a mega mall

[@areeba2415]

@@MyStupidKZbinHandle skydiving in dubai is a must, you get such a beautiful view of the palm. however the city itself is only worth visiting once or twice at max in my opinion.

[@gabrielvasquez599]

I learned that sand castles wash away when I was 4. And I wasn't even a developer.

[@valmarsiglia]

Seems like it would be such a drag to live on some little patch of sand. You'd be kind of screwed if you just needed to nip down to the corner shop for a pint of milk.

[@rishithakkerr]

congratulations on the play button

[@Yora21]

A yes. The Palm Islands. Also known as algae and mosquito ponds.

[@jyotaryavrati12]

Oh yeah ☺️

[@plantiron]

Shhhhhh they didnt see that coming did they 😁😁😁😁

[@mohit9374]

Billionaire 1: I'm bored. Billionaire 2: yea me too. Billionaire 1: wanna doodle on the ocean?

[@darkcnotion]

What about something that would help someone else Billionaires?

[@hihu7200]

It was a government project.

[@danielsykes4872]

Billionaire 2: Hold on... I seem to have destroyed the economy. Can we do this later actually?

[@JP-wk7cc]

Hi Hu yeah but the government is basically controlled by the monarchy. And the royal family assets make them more like trillionaires than billionaires. Been there, it’s obscene.

[@bipinshah3400]

Why oh why don't they spend money on displaced people of their faith??? No those poor people would rather get to Christian Europe 🤔wonder why !!!?

[@queenslander954]

Dubai’s terrible reputation warned off potential investors, who would want to invest there now.

[@letmesleepinpeace7052]

Another scummy thing about this is that the workers of these new buildings and hotels are probably all underpaid and still incredibly poor.

[@jattmehkmarecords4152]

Imagine dubai planting trees all over the world instead of spending million billion on concrete jungles

[@cryamistellimek9184]

That would imply they care about anything other than themselves and that will never happen. They are a bunch of spoiled children in a sandbox who want every other kid to call them cool. I hope the United States because energy independent and seriously hurts their income.

[@dreamgirl1937]

i know right, the world hunger would probably be 50% down

[@patriciahadley2374]

There wouldn't be an economical gain behind such a project. All these ridiculously rich states only think about today and couldn't care a hoot about the future. I wonder how they're going to manage the water situation in the future, with all those thousands and thousands of apartments/villas and swimming pools being built! Also rising sea waters and storms will soon obliterate those low lying islands. I see a desperate future ahead for Dubai! 🥴

[@lakka1148]

@@patriciahadley2374 yep, maybe they learn it the hard way. Maybe not, I don't think they care about people, the environment or everything else than money

[@65tallmax]

@@cryamistellimek9184 US has done some horrible shit too ya know.

[@schwiftynat]

“the world” seems so futuristic and creepy. kinda like something they THOUGHT would be the future but never actually happened. kinda like flying cars and robot maids.

[@shiinaetherlux3871]

Yeah future is so scary

[@seinyaaa4504]

Im still waiting on my robot maid gf ngl

[@SammiSweetz]

Lol give us ten years

[@billreed1606]

Jet packs: don't forget jet packs!!!

[@paulklee1936]

I can do without the artificial islands and flying cars. But bring me an anatomically correct robot maid now.

[@mlisaj1111]

Living on a tiny island seems cool, but is pretty inconvenient - you either have a long hot walk to the boat, or need a car on the island, then have to “park” the boat, get into another car,,,with all the same in reverse, transferring whatever you bought that day each time. You could just have the items delivered, but that will cost tons, let alone dealing with the trash pick up, sewage/plumbing, and whether it makes sense to build your mansion on a island that could be covered in water 20 years later. Even in Dubai, not sure there would be enough buyers with both the funds and willing to overlook the drawbacks.

[@augustseven9243]

There is no way in hell id stay in a high rise building built on a pile of sand.