well it's not discussed much because it's handled at a strictly local level. you don't get a national or even state-level conversation about what goes on in town hall public planning meetings.

the article advocates for bringing housing planning under state jurisdiction:

>The hypocrisy itself is galling, if informative. Andreessen might well support legislation upzoning neighborhoods across California. This macro-micro disconnect should push policy makers to grasp that they cannot reason with NIMBYs on a project-by-project basis. They have to eliminate NIMBYism’s veto power by moving decision-making to the state level.

I mean it's basic "got mine, fuck you". The story of history, then we rewrite the narrative to paint the rich as virtuous and self-sacrificing after the fact. The assumptions that others would swallow such narratives is the amazing bit.