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		nikanj 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong 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?

theptip 4 months ago [–]

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.

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