[Aunche]

>It's funny that the GDP itself is prized over the people who are supposed to be the beneficiaries of an economy with a high GDP.

The GDP isn't a magical number that rises by making people suffer. It rises because NIMBYs are unable to force others to struggle by keeping them out of their economically advantageous land.

[8note]

The economic advantage of that land is that the nimbys are there.

Similar land is all over the place