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Before sunrise, the desert outside Riyadh is already hot. By noon, the temperature hovers near 46 °C. At the construction site of Beast Land , the new theme park backed by American YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson — better known as MrBeast — the heat presses down like a lid. Dozens of workers, mostly from South and Southeast Asia, spend their days pouring concrete and welding steel under the open sun. Some have been here for over a year. Several say they were promised air-conditioned