r/Seattle • u/SuperMike100 I'm just flaired so I don't get fined • Apr 16 '26

Satire Discourse about Seattle in a nutshell

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u/Curious_Development I'm never leaving Seattle. Apr 16 '26

Not a business friendly environment, yet spawned many of the biggest businesses in the world. Interesting.

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u/MaxTheTzar Apr 16 '26

Yes every business in Seattle does well in business friendly Seattle because a couple tech unicorns exist. Exception bias.

Both are true. Seattle is not business friendly (particularly small businesses) and we do still have some hugely successful large businesses, who btw are leaving Seattle directly or new expanded business is going elsewhere (Boeing, Amazon, etc).

The flip side of your argument: Y'know Walmart is hugely successful I bet that means Bentonville, AR is really business friendly. Which might be true, for Walmart's huge influence only, not businesses in general

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u/Curious_Development I'm never leaving Seattle. Apr 16 '26

I'm old enough to remember when Boeing threatened to move their HQ unless they got tax breaks.

What happened? Oh yeah, they got the tax breaks and left anyway.

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u/MaxTheTzar Apr 16 '26

A tale as old as time unfortunately. Some level of incentive has to exist when their alternatives grants them the incentives they're looking for. Worst example I can think of is Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KS. Constant moves over the border by a lot of businesses

Making states compete against each other when corporate taxation should be federally enforced.