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And more NIMBYs will show up to scream about Google overrunning local government.

It is extremely easy to make hugely powerful corporations the villain, for obvious reasons, and this doesn't stop being true in the case where they want something actually good.



Sorry to have creeped into your bio, but what is your bandwidth in Munich?


And yet all these mega corps can spend 100s of millions on lobbying and get favorable law passed or regulation taken care whether labor, FTC or taxes or EPA .

The local council is apparently the last bastion of democracy that can ward of influence of their largest tax payers and the wealthiest residents who are their employees




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