Senegal Monument

[Mason]

WOW. Saw this in the Wall Street Journal. Thought it was pretty cool.

[Superfluous Crow]

That's a very, very large and proportinally cool statue.

[Nomadic]

Not awesome enough... needs to have the man Leonidas kicking a lion.

[Elemental_Elf]

Not big enough, or impressive enough, for me to risk going to Senegal.

[Ghostman]

Meh. Pretty tame compared to the Neutrality Arch and it's rotating golden statue of His Excellency Saparmurat Türkmenbaşy :hammer:

[Polycarp]

I can't even tell you how much rage I am feeling right now.

[Elemental_Elf]

I can't even tell you how much rage I am feeling right now.

Step 1: Build a Monument that people will want to see.
Step 2: Build a Mall to sell Monument-related paraphernalia.
Step 3: Build an Airport so people can go to said mall and see said monument.
Stop 4: ???
Step 5: Success! You have successfully raised the medium income for the entire nation from unacceptable poverty to acceptable poverty!!!

I'm sure they ran a bunch of simulations in SimCity before spending 27 million dollars.

[SA]

Goodness me. The North Koreans are building it??

[Superfluous Crow]

While the rotating gold statue does give the Neutrality Arch some points, the bronze thing is considerably bigger (12 m vs. 50 m)
And although we might not like why they built it, what's done is done, so we might at least marvel at the feats of modern engineering so we can distract ourselves from the horrible state of the responsible nations.
Although I'm guessing that if they used local force building 50 m of bronze might yield some extra construction worker jobs. Golden statue not so much.