https://archive.ph/6XCFq

> "The wealthier you become, the more you want perfect security," says Setha Low, the director of the Public Space Research Group [...] "And that produces an industry making a lot of money off of people's fear." Much like the military-industrial complex, she says, "there's a security-industrial complex — this entire sector of our economy being fed by people wanting this kind of security."

Maybe.

Or, maybe, it's a clear sign that the uber-wealthy are scared by how dangerously unstable the extreme inequities of modern America are making things.

Historically, highly secure & well-defended castles were a sure sign that either (1) there was a war on, or (2) the rulers in the castles were representatives of some conquering foreign power...and the locals were inclined to rebellion over that.