Interestingly, this is what NIMBY used to mean (i.e. we all agree there should be industry/prisons/landfills/etc, just please not near me). But this is somethi

Interestingly, this is what NIMBY used to mean (i.e. we all agree there should be industry/prisons/landfills/etc, just please not near me). But this is something totally different. This is just urban incumbents opposing further urban developments in their neighborhoods on the grounds that they’ve got theirs and there’s no upside to making it any easier for other people to move there, too. This isn’t about keeping the oil refinery out. This is about keeping other people out. That’s a fundamentally different thing. NIMBY isn’t even the right word for it.