“it’s also a story about a pernicious tactic of delaying-through-reports. This is a way of exercising a veto while still seeming reasonable,.” This is why we can’t build, and why what we do build is somehow expensive yet poor quality. Each time we delay moving forward what is really happening is we are robbing future generations of benefits in favor of an increasingly selfish status quo. It’s all the more galling that progressive language is used to hide increasingly regressive efforts that inevitably end in stagnation.