Whether or not these additional contract jobs are a good thing for the community is debateable; certainly anyone who has driven from the US west coast into the

Whether or not these additional contract jobs are a good thing for the community is debateable; certainly anyone who has driven from the US west coast into the interior (e.g. towards Denver) has driven through a lot of these one-stoplight towns with myriad shuttered storefronts, one gas station with the town's only restaurant (a Subway), and hardly anyone around on main street except an idling police cruiser. Truly any jobs would be a boon to the local inhabitants (although turning it into a company town has its own obvious drawbacks, e.g. see all the history of mining in Appalachia). The real thing that is truly unjust is the tax concessions they extract out of the local officials. The sums of money that the Google/Amazon/Microsoft officials wave in front of these guys probably has at least 1 or 2 more zeros than they are used to seeing when it comes to town finances, and they too eagerly gobble it up out of desperation without realizing that the deal is highly exploitative. I wish there was some way of either regulating this at the federal level, but the government seems to be highly in favor of enabling the business side of things instead of protecting individuals, e.g. the ridiculous Kelo v. New London SCOTUS decision [0] where Pfizer rolled into town and got the city officials to eminent-domain people out of their houses, only to have the whole deal fall through and now that site is used as a dump... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London