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Thanks for sharing, amazing photos. I actually have his book "100 suns" but haven't got around to check out his other works until now.

My browser didn't show the accompanying text at first for some reason, so I thought I was looking at some kind of experimental military base, so depressing "oh the workers get pools I guess they must be well compensated for working in such a bleak environment" and then at the end I click the (i) button and see it's a gated community for the ultra rich

Houses of the ultra rich usually are further apart, with much more space (green, forest, whatever) between them, not so densely packed.

The scars we inflict on our planet for the sake of pragmatism I can somewhat live with. It's for the sake of vanity that makes me sick.

Is it much of a scar? Only future archaeologists will know when they dig up rocks from our era 1000 years from now.

And the payoff has been no major war since 1945, despite infinite animosity and huge defense budgets on all sides.

I'm afraid you are preaching to the choir my friend, this is the platform of "entrepreneurs" after all.