NIMBY is just one specific physical manifestation of a broader mentality of stasis. There is also:
- NIMEY—Not In My Election Year
- NIMTOO—Not In My Term Of Office
- LULU—Locally Undesirable Land Use
- NOPE—Not On Planet Earth
- CAVE—Citizens Against Virtually Everything
- BANANA—Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything
One upshot of this current Zeitgeist of community-enforced social stasis is that our physical infrastructure won’t get much better anytime soon.
From: Tyler Cowen, The Complacency Class:The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
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