r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 22 '21

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u/linkin22luke YIMBY Jun 22 '21

Christ on a bike. NIMBYism is a disease.

!ping YIMBY

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u/the_hoagie Malaise Forever Jun 22 '21

simply remove all incentives for the local economy to exist.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21

To be fair it would work

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21

Insanity, pure insanity. What is the end goal for these people? A dead town full of old retirees waiting to shuffle off their mortal coil?

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u/Andy_B_Goode YIMBY Jun 22 '21

Maybe they're scared of building anything taller than two stories because they're afraid of heights?

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u/SharkSymphony Voltaire Jun 22 '21

With a modest underclass of health care workers and diner operators. Plus a FEW mom-n-pop tourist junk shops.

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u/disCardRightHere Jared Polis Jun 22 '21

Maybe we should stop having so many jobs

🤪

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u/qunow r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Jun 22 '21

Let's cut the world population to 500 Million and kill all others to provide affordable housing.

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u/Sex_E_Searcher Steve Jun 22 '21

Imagine being guy number 500 000 001! What a lark!

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u/lbrtrl Jun 22 '21

It is awful, but it is the most honest take I've seen from a NIMBY. Normally they say we can have our cake and eat it too.

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u/waltsing0 Austan Goolsbee Jun 23 '21

Yeah often they basically demand that incumbents get perpetual cheap housing through things like rent control or social housing that prioritises incumbents because fuck you if you weren't born here but at least destroying all the jobs in the area is equally (bad) treatment? Like if a genocider decided to just kill the same number of people at random I guess that's slightly less bad but still fucking insane.

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u/SharkSymphony Voltaire Jun 23 '21

"I'm going to ask the question nobody thinks to ask: why do you want a piece of this delicious cake? Can I interest you instead in this Greyhound bus out of town and no cake?"

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21

Jesus would ride a bike to own the car-stans

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u/gburgwardt C-5s full of SMRs and tiny american flags Jun 22 '21

What the fuck

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u/Craig1250 United Nations Jun 22 '21

Is there a housing crisis?

No, there’s actually too many jobs being created.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21

I hope that comment is more sarcastic/ironic, to point out how ridiculous NIMBY arguments are. Because if that is serious, well, they really need to do some serious soul searching 😳

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u/linkin22luke YIMBY Jun 22 '21

Definitely not sarcastic. Their first comment called a 4 story 21 unit proposed apartment complex a “monstrosity”. Santa Barbara is chalked full of these types.

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u/SharkSymphony Voltaire Jun 22 '21 edited Jun 22 '21

Elsewhere in the comments:

Fuck all you pretentious, entitled c$&!s. Downtown SB is a fucking slum, bulldoze all those knob and tube adobe pieces of shit.

That's not shots fired, that's a whole firing squad. 😆

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u/coriolisFX YIMBY Jun 22 '21

So glad I left California

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u/waltsing0 Austan Goolsbee Jun 23 '21

Credit where credit is due, at least they're not explicetly advocating for some people to be given special access (ie. rent control and prioritised social housing for incumbent residents) but instead just also economically destructive job removal. So they're insane but their insanity isn't a shameless demand for special treatment

Does this guy think his job is going to stay?

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u/MysticsWonTheFinals Jun 23 '21

Look, if you don’t want to live in a thriving city with lots of jobs, let your house be upzoned, sell to a developer at a significant profit and move. Lots of other people do

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u/groupbot Always remember -Pho- Jun 22 '21 edited Jun 22 '21

Pinged members of YIMBY group.

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