Sure, they like it when numbers in account books get bigger, but Why are they NIMBYs when they could make much more money redeveloping their best-positioned ne

Sure, they like it when numbers in account books get bigger, but Why are they NIMBYs when they could make much more money redeveloping their best-positioned neighborhoods as massive apartments they rent out? Why did they not let wages grow, when the resulting increase in consumption will make them more profit? If rich people as a class really were interested in max growth, they would have stayed Fordist-Keynesianist, but that did not happen. And indeed growth, while still present, hasn't been what it was in the past.