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What do i mean with native: spacing, colors, etc. are internally variables
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"Maybe rich people should build weird fountains, again."
https://youtu.be/cz231Zi8Z7g
"The Wasserspiele of Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe are 300 years old, powered entirely by gravity, and entertaining tourists. As legacies for rich people go, there are far worse ones."
Been saying this for years. Todays rich people are fucking bad at being rich. It's truly a skill issue.
If billionaires were building libraries and colleges and such, they wouldn't be so bad. Still bad, but at least we'd be getting something.
Today's ultra rich are more into bunkers and are just soulless, selfish, and frankly kind of stupid.
That’s capitalism for you.
I think those gilded age people were still basing their beliefs on a very old idea of what wealth is supposed to be. The elite of Ancient Greece and Rome who would often fund public works projects. The gilded age industrialists really wanted to show the rest of the world how powerful they were. America wasn’t the same global power it was today and they were proving to the “old world” that they could rival them in beauty and wealth.
Modern billionaires have started to realize that if they controlled the government more than their predecessors, they could make more money. Their version of public works, museums, and gardens is a restructure of their role in society so they can become kings.
https://www.dailygrail.com/2024/10/the-technocratic-conspiracy-how-tech-tycoons-plan-to-disrupt-democracy-and-become-the-new-rulers-of-the-world/
Forget fountains and statues; I wish we'd go back to rich people one-upping each other by creating public parks and forests named after themselves.
Kassel is insanely underrated