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> I completely disagree with the “race to the bottom” framing of the idea that cities shouldn’t compete to provide the best services for the commercial enterprises which reside there.

I think the idea is that cities definitely should compete to provide the best services for the commercial enterprises, but that those service should not include breaks on taxes or land giveaways. If building a new transit station, boosting spending on public schools that the Amazon engineers would want, and restructuring building and zoning codes to increase the housing supply will make your city more attractive to Amazon, by all means go ahead, since those should redound to everyone, regardless of whether they work for Amazon. But Amazon seems rich enough to me that they would be just fine even without tax breaks on construction materials or payroll taxes.