alt Hacker News"Exchanging goods and services for money to a locale" is not a colonial model.
I, a strawberry farmer in Florida, should have no obligation to create an office of locals in every geographic location I sell strawberries in.
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dboreham • today at 1:29 AM
No but you give up a large margin to shippers, importers, distributors and retailers in those geographic locations.
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If a foreign entity came into Florida and bought up 35% of the entire retail infrastructure, you bet the US government would regulate it and demand local value capture.
Case in point - US actively forced TSMC and Samsung to build $65B+ of factories in Arizona and Texas to secure domestic interests.