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Microsoft and Amazon are software/cloud companies; they can pick up and move on a whim and Olympia knows it.

Manufacturing is much more vulnerable, over much longer timescales.

King County runs the state and everybody knows it. I don't like it, but I don't delude myself either.

Well, you can't exactly relocate a campus with 5,000-10,000 employees to another state 'on a whim', but yeah, your point still stands that it's a lot easier than moving a factory that builds physical things.

I recall IBM and other tech companies being called out for occasionally deliberately moving campuses to other states because this creates an excuse to sever certain employees who can't otherwise be lawfully fired.

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