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    Steve Sailer‏ @Steve_Sailer May 16

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    Lockheed, the biggest cog in the military-industrial complex, used to have corporate HQ in Burbank, CA because that's where its factory was. Then moved HQ to Calabasas, CA, because bosses lived there. Then moved HQ to Beltway outside DC to better lobby Congress & Pentagon. https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/996811171113160704 …

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      2. Bami Pebbles‏ @BamiPebbles May 17
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        Lockheed used to have ( don't know if still running ) a large mfg-facility in the Bay Area ( Mountain View,Calif ) ~ close proximity to Moffett Field

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      3. Steve Sailer‏ @Steve_Sailer May 17
        Replying to @BamiPebbles

        Lockheed was the biggest employer in 1980s Silicon Valley, with 28,000 workers building Trident nuclear sub ICBMs. The Cold War was funded on a vast scale. Much of today's SV infrastructure of technical expertise was built up & paid for by taxpayers during Cold War.

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      2. Parallax Optics‏ @parallaxoptics May 16
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        A succinct summary of the ideological/influence process at work.

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      3. нαℓιƒαχ ЅЂаↁош‏ @HalifaxShadow May 16
        Replying to @parallaxoptics @Steve_Sailer

        There's a fringe theory in economics that moving the capital to a remote / smaller city actually helps to break this process down a bit and beat back some of the waste in the system. Can't remember where I heard about that.

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      4. Parallax Optics‏ @parallaxoptics May 16
        Replying to @HalifaxShadow @Steve_Sailer

        I've read the same. But hard to break away from the feeding trough to catch a breath of air, lest someone takes your place.

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      5. нαℓιƒαχ ЅЂаↁош‏ @HalifaxShadow May 16
        Replying to @parallaxoptics @Steve_Sailer

        IIRC some research has been done showing that states with their capital in a small city rather than the largest city in the state have lower taxes, smaller size % of GDP, and fewer regulations (which is a proxy for favouritism to special interests)

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      6. Covfefe Anon‏ @CovfefeAnon May 17
        Replying to @HalifaxShadow @parallaxoptics @Steve_Sailer

        So you're saying that New York and California wouldn't be the low tax business friendly havens they are today if their capitals were NYC and SF/LA respectively?

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      7. нαℓιƒαχ ЅЂаↁош‏ @HalifaxShadow May 17
        Replying to @CovfefeAnon @parallaxoptics @Steve_Sailer

        No, I’m saying that the theory exists that they would be *even worse* if the capitals were to be integrated with their largest city, and that the USA would be *even worse* if the Capital were to be in NYC too. Think London and Paris. (It’s not my theory, I am relating it)

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      8. Covfefe Anon‏ @CovfefeAnon May 17
        Replying to @HalifaxShadow @parallaxoptics @Steve_Sailer

        Interesting - I can see it shifting the dead weight loss around but not reducing it one way or the other The rest of the state politicos get money - NYC gets cultural domination - i.e., NYers get another opportunity to get individual status by dominating non NY-ers

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      9. нαℓιƒαχ ЅЂаↁош‏ @HalifaxShadow May 17
        Replying to @CovfefeAnon @parallaxoptics @Steve_Sailer

        The theory is that dividing senior leadership attention between the capital and the economic centres results in less 'capture' of the government, I think.

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      2. Richard Harper‏ @harpersnotes May 17
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        Marginal Revolution in 2017 floating the idea of re-locating departments in D.C. to places out West. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/03/70701.html … ..

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      2. YupItsMe‏ @Thomasdiscerns May 16
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        When Grumman was making the f-16 in the 80s in Long Island - they didnt need to lobby much bc all the parts were made in the USA - mostly around nyc.

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      3. Ming the Merciless‏ @_Emperor_Ming_ May 17
        Replying to @Thomasdiscerns @Steve_Sailer

        You mean F-14 (the F-16 was General Dynamics made in Fort Worth) but I assure you Grumman did plenty of lobbying. All defense contractors did, that's how the game was (and is) played.

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      4. YupItsMe‏ @Thomasdiscerns May 17
        Replying to @_Emperor_Ming_ @Steve_Sailer

        You are correct. I have to dig up my dad's old research reports - He covered both companies from the 60s to 80s/

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      1. Hank  ❌‏ @queerviewmirror May 17
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        Boeing moved their corporate headquarters from Seattle to Chicago a few years ago for some reason unknown to me. The weather?

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      1. David Pinsen‏ @dpinsen May 17
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        Isn't Burbank where Jay Leno used to do his ripoff of Howard Stern's man-in-the-street interviews to show how ignorant average people were?

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      1. Jerome Paternity Court‏ @propane_mann May 17
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

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      1. Marcus Tullius Groyper 🥛 🍪‏ @RomanLike May 17
        Replying to @Steve_Sailer

        Volkswagen saw the writing on the wall and moved it's US HQ from Detroit to the DC Area. It's #sad. But it makes sense from a corporate point-of-view...

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