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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Not Bob
No, it’s like if the Chick-Fil-A opened in the Google building and then Wendy’s and Taco Bell lost business. A city, I think, may have a legitimate interest in not having a large hermetically sealed self-contained fiefdom taking up a block of real estate to the detriment of local businesses and the surrounding neighborhood.
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I absolutely agree that the city has legitimate interest in the health of its businesses. But it's not an externality when businesses make business decisions that affect other businesses detrimentally.
Google is no more hermetically sealed than the financial institutions and law firms that fill New York. It just offers its employees better food than you find in their cafeterias.
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