As a proud liberal YIMBY, the attitude taken by Matt, etc is not helpful. The same thing happens when people decide the construction process of the Empire State Building is something we should emulate. There’s usually good reasons why we have modern safety/environmental practices.
Reposted from David Dayen
I stopped paying attention to Yglesias because I resolved to stop punching down, but apparently he's descended into the "let us now praise Jay Gould for getting shit done" phase of midwit conservatism
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