alt Hacker NewsFor years in Washington DC there was one single crank who went to every community engagement meeting and prevented hundreds of units of housing from getting built.
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nikanj • 08/01/2025
Every avenue of life has it’s weirdoes, but why have we as a society decided a single weirdo can stop a hundred homes from being built?
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I’ll be so interested to see what happens to this kind of thing.
I feel like we saw the absurd version of it over the past decade, where society at large had acted as though highly online reactionaries are quality signals of an underlying current.
It seems as though market share in that model is failing. I predict the pendulum will swing the other way across the board, and loud minorities in in-person forums will be given less credence… for good (by my estimation in this case) and bad.