alt Hacker NewsThese are not different from normal nimbyism. Me demanding that before any housing can be built near me it should benefit ME, all is potential negatives like traffic are mitigated, it must be built extra expensively, etc. Is just bog standard nimbyism and why housing is not getting built.
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Any real estate regulation can be labeled as NIMBYism. You're invoking it here as a thought-terminating cliché.
Building without considering consequences at all, or building the way that capital demands, is how you end up with urban communities getting obliterated by highways[1], or rural communities getting decimated by industrial plants[2], or indigenous communities getting destroyed by military testing[3], or indigenous people AND fragile ecosystems getting erased by military testing[4].
- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses
- [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossville,_Louisiana
- [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining_and_the_Navajo_people
- [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Atoll
Yes, I'm a NIMBY. Someone want to build more houses, maybe that's good, but the roads need to be scaled up to match. Want to build a datacenter, ok but what's in it for me? The people long-term invested in a town are the ones who should be making decisions on how to develop it, not someone coming in from the outside to make a buck.
No, unless it's data center owners trying to ban new data centers, it's not the same at all.