Show Notes

Dismayed by the destruction and death in Gaza? Fear not, the wizards at Boston Consulting Group have a plan – a 38-slide deck that will Make Gaza GREAT Again. It’s a molten nugget of consultant-speak, SimCity planning moves, weirdly proportioned AI slop renderings, and tokenized real estate transactions that place a thin veil of “solutioneering” over what looks an awful lot like ethnic cleansing. Don’t worry – it will all be covered by private investment and all kinds of familiar corporations in the tech, design, construction and security businesses are invited, whether they know it or not. Our hot take on this hottest of messes.


Discussed:


Washington Post article

Wall Street Journal article

Financial Times article

GREAT Trust deck

Pre-GREAT Trust Hebrew version of the deck

Gaza Riviera TikTok video

Scarlett Johansson on SNL: Complicit

Boston Consulting Group

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

Tony Blair Institute

Ebenezer Howard

Baron von Haussmann

SimCity

Paul Romer’s Charter Cities

Shout back to Episode 92, The Hidden Globe

AECOM

Studio Boeri Architetti

IMEC = India-Middle East Corridor

UN rapporteur communique on Gaza report: Economy of Occupation to an Economy of Genocide


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