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nikanj08/01/20251 replyview on HN

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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theptip08/01/2025

I don’t think a decision was made, we just fell down the slippery slope to Vetocracy.

It requires active energy to keep a thing alive and we haven’t been fighting hard for building things.