Like the places where people welcome deregulation and jobs?
replyNot trying to sound like a jerk but there’s plenty of places in the US where people welcome stuff like coal mines and polluting factories.
If the factories have to be somewhere and they consent, then why not there?
corporations taking hold of small local governments and passing laws that benefit them, unbeknownst to the locals living there, is hardly "consent"
replyCan’t help but feel like you’re overestimating the competency of the average voter in these effected areas; a breath after yours—though not necessarily your own—may condemn these people for being undereducated, out of touch with culture or subject to corporate grifters.
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replyThere's this country called China that you guys been offshoring manufacturing to...
replyUnless you are from China, your jurisdiction offshores to China as well.
replyWell the attitude that puts a full stop (well a question mark) after "NIMBY" says implicity "where the poors live".
replyWell, I find it a bit hypocritical: if those things are so bad, why to forbid manufacturing and not consumption? Otherwise you just pollute a place where people that have no say live.
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