Who is ”they”?

The origin of local power to stymie development is from the post WW2 years when freeways were mandated, but local communities they bisected were inevitably the politically weak ones.

Now, the NIMBYs include those same VCs [1] that publicly posted that America should build at scale again… just not in their town.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andre...