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It seems to me that the tech money people and executives have become nuts in the past few years. This, the YIMBY (really YIYBY, NIMBY) movement, /e/acc, the VC
by feedforward 2y ago
It seems to me that the tech money people and executives have become nuts in the past few years. This, the YIMBY (really YIYBY, NIMBY) movement, /e/acc, the VCs going to war with San Francisco politicians (including the drunken threats from the current head of YC).
Never mind China, Europe seems to have had enough and even DC is having enough on some level. Not sure when this started, didn't seem to be at this level ten years ago.
I and others I know are against them, and we are like some of them were before their initial money raise - preparing for system design interviews, debugging from trace id's, studying covariance and contravariance. They really seem to be off in their own bubble of affluence. Not sure what year this started taking off - was definitely after 2014 at some point.
- davidw 2y agoYIMBY is a very, very broad group of people who just see how bad the housing crisis is and want to fix it, and realize that a big chunk of that fix is legalizing housing that's perfectly normal in much of the world. Don't lump us in with the out of control tech bro culture people like Musk.
- hot_gril 2y agoLooks like "really YIYBY, NIMBY" was an attempt to narrow it down
- davidw 2y agoThey are saying that YIMBYs "really want to build in your backyard, not their own" which is nonsense.
- feedforward 2y agohttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andreessens-opposition-housing-project-nimby/671061/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andre...
- davidw 2y agoThat guy isn't really a YIMBY then is he?
- hot_gril 2y agoSome of them do, or they're only YIMBY until they own something
- davidw 2y agoI 'own something' and advocated for some apartments right down the street from me.