The way I see it is that using up a community's water supply is murder. And anyone creating/maintaining a data center that used that water is therefore complicit with their deaths.
There may have been a time when tax breaks were useful to attract large corporate facilities to a declining area. The mega-corps would shop around for the best deal, and that would be the deciding factor.
The community that said "We can really use more jobs and the boost to our local economy, but that 'tax relief is too high."
The response? "If you aren't willing to meet our conditions, we'll walk." Fear of losing the much-needed municipal income was often the only inducement needed to agree to corporate demands.
If we need the power to slow down concentrated money then we need to de-concentrate money. This is the story of the Trump agenda and as long as Americans are taught to love money they will keep losing their money!
Excellent points in this - the speed is a feature, the feature, in fact, and it is meant to prevent any opposition.
This may one day be understood as the newest version of the old food-in-pill-form type of "technological progress", and actually a dangerous and unproductive leap backward.
Thank you for this article. There are so many layers and different topics that are encompassed here.
You have painstakingly explained many parts of these layers which helps us to clearly see the many complicated layers.
I may be overreacting but I feel that this is all based on extreme greed and even worse motivations that have been growing for many years and now with trump in charge they are going for broke while they can in all the worst ways.
The owners of large multi billion dollar corporations are delusional to think it's ok to expect communities to swallow their schemes to make more billions at our expense in every way. The expense of our work, our health, the enjoyment of our local environment, the cleanliness and availability of our water and fresh air, the expenses of paying more for electricity, etc are just part of what we will pay for them to continue enriching themselves at our expense.
They should not get tax breaks at all to bring this mess into our communities and our lives.
We the people should tax the hell out of them and be able to make laws or rules that require them to meet our needs and concerns in order to allow them to function in our communities.
The billionaires doing this are sick in the head and don't even see or care about our struggles or quality of life.
We can't let them force their dystopian future on us.
The way I see it is that using up a community's water supply is murder. And anyone creating/maintaining a data center that used that water is therefore complicit with their deaths.
There may have been a time when tax breaks were useful to attract large corporate facilities to a declining area. The mega-corps would shop around for the best deal, and that would be the deciding factor.
The community that said "We can really use more jobs and the boost to our local economy, but that 'tax relief is too high."
The response? "If you aren't willing to meet our conditions, we'll walk." Fear of losing the much-needed municipal income was often the only inducement needed to agree to corporate demands.
What if communities called their bluff?
"Go ahead."
Time to spread a little NIMBY, to my mind.
If we need the power to slow down concentrated money then we need to de-concentrate money. This is the story of the Trump agenda and as long as Americans are taught to love money they will keep losing their money!
Excellent points in this - the speed is a feature, the feature, in fact, and it is meant to prevent any opposition.
This may one day be understood as the newest version of the old food-in-pill-form type of "technological progress", and actually a dangerous and unproductive leap backward.
Thank you for this article. There are so many layers and different topics that are encompassed here.
You have painstakingly explained many parts of these layers which helps us to clearly see the many complicated layers.
I may be overreacting but I feel that this is all based on extreme greed and even worse motivations that have been growing for many years and now with trump in charge they are going for broke while they can in all the worst ways.
The owners of large multi billion dollar corporations are delusional to think it's ok to expect communities to swallow their schemes to make more billions at our expense in every way. The expense of our work, our health, the enjoyment of our local environment, the cleanliness and availability of our water and fresh air, the expenses of paying more for electricity, etc are just part of what we will pay for them to continue enriching themselves at our expense.
They should not get tax breaks at all to bring this mess into our communities and our lives.
We the people should tax the hell out of them and be able to make laws or rules that require them to meet our needs and concerns in order to allow them to function in our communities.
The billionaires doing this are sick in the head and don't even see or care about our struggles or quality of life.
We can't let them force their dystopian future on us.