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The “screw you, I got mine” culture is killing us.

People who bought houses enabled by zoning changes refuse to allow zoning changes that will increase the price of their own home because why?

Racism and a fundamental failure to understand economics.

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I think it's more projection - assuming anything that benefits you benefits society as a whole.

House owners assume everyone else is also a house owner, so increasing values will benefit everyone.

I'd posit that it's the inverse belief: anything that benefits other people indirectly hurts you. This zero-sum worldview is becoming popular in national politics as well.

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