Ozymandias Problems
What makes a legacy a good legacy?
In a WSJ piece about Neom, the weird Saudi Arabian smart city project, Mohammad bin Salman was quoted as saying, "I want to build my pyramids."
Reading that quote made me think of 3 things.
First, it made me think of the Futurama episode where Bender becomes a brutal Pharoah of an Egyptian-type planet and forces his enslaved people to build a giant statue…
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