This argument spans AI, housing, infrastructure, scaling medical access, the whole shebang of critical solutions to 21st century problems is held back to couch the discomfort of the few.

Whether it’s neighbors blocking housing, union bosses blocking port automation at the height of COVID, medical association’s controlling doctor quotas it’s the same sentiment, a fear of change.

I grant that a healthy distrust of the parties involved is fine but the reaction when given power is the same, veto: Stop everything now. Change is scary.