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Old Posted Jan 14, 2018, 11:16 PM
Khantilever Khantilever is offline
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Originally Posted by aaron38 View Post
This is a real question. Why should Lucas and Obama get Chicago parkland but not Jeff Bezos?
This sounds like the NIMBY reasoning one hears when arguing for why we ought to encourage more development. They always respond saying “why do you care so much about the developers?” It’s as if they can’t see past the first-order effects and recognize that it’s not about the developers’ interests (nor Obama’s or Bezos’ or Lucas’) but about the benefits society as a whole may enjoy. That our interests happen to align with their profit motive or vanity is irrelevant.
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