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No matter what you think about climate change, that subhead is a rookie mistake and a false dichotomy: The private companies are taxpayers.
No matter what you think about climate change, that subhead is a rookie mistake and a false dichotomy: The private companies are taxpayers.
Tech companies generally get away with paying less than their fair share: https://fortune.com/2019/12/06/big-tech-taxes-google-faceboo...
Also consider that all the workers are also tax payers and they want the company to continue existing, their taxes would also go towards protecting the bay. Their tax dollars wouldn't exist in California if those tech companies weren't there.
Basically move the chipplant into an old aircraft carrier, stabilize in production mode with pillars and piers - and thus be encapsulated from local market turmoils, international politics and local politicians.Seasteading, without the sea, but all the negotiation benefits of mobility.
I wonder if some particular hard to establish fabs are going to move into market disturbance resistant vessels. Basically move the chipplant into an old aircraft carrier, stabilize in production mode with pillars and piers - and thus be encapsulated from local market turmoils, international politics and local politicians.Seasteading, without the sea, but all the negotiation benefits of mobility.
It would probably be easier for Facebook or Google to just reboot their headquarters, in multiple offices, wherever their labor pool migrates when their homes get flooded. For the most part it's just people at desks in buildings, which can be set up anywhere there is electricity. These companies would take a freebie if municipalities decided to mitigate flooding on their behalf, but it wouldn't end up being an existe…
I wonder if some particular hard to establish fabs are going to move into market disturbance resistant vessels. Basically move the chipplant into an old aircraft carrier, stabilize in production mode with pillars and piers - and thus be encapsulated from local market turmoils, international politics and local politicians.Seasteading, without the sea, but all the negotiation benefits of mobility.
Costs of sea dikes – regressions and uncertainty estimates (2017)
https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/17/765/2017/nhess-17-7...
No matter what you think about climate change, that subhead is a rookie mistake and a false dichotomy: The private companies are taxpayers.
Yes, in the sense that you would still nominally be a taxpayer if you had ways to pay $1-$5 tax per year, while still making $300K.