KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — In a town that has been through it all and is clawing its way back, a man named Omidullah is looking to hit paydirt.
The Kabul real estate agent is selling a nine-bedroom, nine-bath, white-and-gold villa in the Afghan capital. On the roof’s gable, glittering Arabic script tempts buyers and brokers with the word “mashallah” — “God has willed it.”
The villa is listed at $450,000, a startling number in a country where more than half of the population relies on humanitarian aid to survive, most Afghans don’t have bank accounts, and mortgages are rare. Yet the offers are coming in.
“It’s a myth that Afghans don’t have money,” Omidullah said. “We have very big businessmen who have big businesses abroad. There are houses here worth millions of dollars.”
In Kabul, a curious thing is happening to fuel the high-end real estate market. Peace, it seems, is driving up property prices.
Yeah. My fear, and I’ve been shouting this from the rooftops since 2001’s patriot act, is that we have the infrastructure in place already to do quite a bit of damage in two years. And look at all the major players in the tech industry - nearly every single one of the big names are fascists. Peter theil, Elon musk, mark zuckerberg… and I’m suspicious as hell of Sam Altman.
Remember, IBM made the Holocaust possible. It was the industrialization of death…