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So, NIMBYism doing its dirty work? People love to hate billionaires, but most NIMBY initiatives that block housing development and drive up the rents are pushe
by inglor_cz 2y ago
So, NIMBYism doing its dirty work?
People love to hate billionaires, but most NIMBY initiatives that block housing development and drive up the rents are pushed by groups of regular citizens, not the super-rich. Also true outside the US. Czechia hardly has any millionaires, but bored pensioners with a quest to meddle in everything are plentiful and they have, uh, results. So do some green NGOs.
- fc417fc802 2y agoThis. We continue to own goal ourselves and then blame the ultra wealthy. It's quite perplexing. That isn't to claim that there aren't issues stemming from income inequality. Just that cost of living issues are some of the most pressing day-to-day and are often self inflicted (voting against infrastructure, voting against public transit, voting in favor of boneheaded zoning, etc).
- rsync 2y agoExactly. I, also, hate democracy when it produces results I disagree with.
- inglor_cz 2y agoMost NIMBY movements don't rely on democratic majorities. Often, it is "just" work of a tiny minority of very dedicated people who found out ways to hijack the standard mechanisms to the detriment of supermajorities.