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> While I'm perfectly happy to criticize "progressive communities", there's nothing hypocritical about not wanting to live in a London with 25M people. Yes, th

by ng12 4y ago

> While I'm perfectly happy to criticize "progressive communities", there's nothing hypocritical about not wanting to live in a London with 25M people. Yes, there is. If you live in London now it's probably because you or someone in your family benefited from a system that now excludes anyone not already in it. We ditched the landed gentry a few hundred years ago, I'm not super excited about bringing them back.

anamax 4y ago
Wanting to be landed gentry is not hypocrisy. ("want to be landed gentry" is your interpretation, but I'll stipulate it for the purposes of this response.) Note that a significant fraction, probably even a majority, of the 10M prospective Londoners would much rather live in today's "only 14M London" than the "25M London" that you think should happen. Are these prospective Londoners wanna-be landed gentry hypocrites?