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What resource are they competing for? Souls? Tax dollars? You don't win points by having a high population, so why do states want one? There's no shareholders h
by giraffe_lady 4y ago
What resource are they competing for? Souls? Tax dollars? You don't win points by having a high population, so why do states want one? There's no shareholders here.
It's easy to imagine scenarios where the economic desires of high-wealth outsiders who could move to a state are directly opposed to the needs of low-wealth people currently living there. A competition-based model would find it easy to make the wrong choice.
- systemvoltage 4y ago> It's easy to imagine scenarios where the economic desires of high-wealth outsiders who could move to a state Can you cite such examples? Melbourne, Switzerland, Singapore, HK and 20th century examples of SF, NYC, London were all attractive hyper capitalistic cities.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoRight and how do the people who have lived in those places the whole time feel about it? A very common complaint in those cities is that local interests are deprioritized to make a more favorable environment for the rich. There's probably some amount of unavoidable tension between these things but viewing gov policy mainly as a means to compete for wealth holders does not seem likely to lead to balanced outcomes.