The disconnect is you’re talking about how it effects the people who live there…
Back in the day, a base would beef up local small businesses, who had to hire substantially more employees, who then spent their wages in town. Now it just means your chain stores take a profit cut. Not many people lose jobs, because there’s not that many to lose. The few who do, didn’t have much disposable income to spread around anyways
When the local media complains about it hurting an area, they’re talking about GDP level stuff. That just doesn’t really affect people’s day today lives, especially in the short term or if there’s corruption that was easting up those funds.
But all over, these a disconnect because billionaires syphon off as much as they can. So things that used to put money in local communities, just don’t anymore. So places need to re-evalute if they still have a benefit
The disconnect is you’re talking about how it effects the people who live there…
Back in the day, a base would beef up local small businesses, who had to hire substantially more employees, who then spent their wages in town. Now it just means your chain stores take a profit cut. Not many people lose jobs, because there’s not that many to lose. The few who do, didn’t have much disposable income to spread around anyways
When the local media complains about it hurting an area, they’re talking about GDP level stuff. That just doesn’t really affect people’s day today lives, especially in the short term or if there’s corruption that was easting up those funds.
But all over, these a disconnect because billionaires syphon off as much as they can. So things that used to put money in local communities, just don’t anymore. So places need to re-evalute if they still have a benefit