Random thought spawned by calling the western part of this state Bezos Manor.
Bezos unquestionably owns Seattle and thus the state in a personal way. He is lord of the manor, residing in the manor. In old German terms he is Jeff von und zu Seattlesburg.
Before he claimed the manor in 2010, it was divided between Microsoft and Boeing. Both were HQd in Seattle, but Boeing was national with long-standing factories in Wichita and elsewhere. Their interests and desires were NOT identical. Divided ownership is more balanced.
Among the other tech demons, Facebook and Google co-own California. They compete for dick length in the stock market but what they want from the manor is identical, so their vector diagram is the same as Bezos. No division, no balance.
FB and Google have different public profiles. Facebook == Zuck. Pure personal power. Google’s two founders, Schmidt and Brin, didn’t become national figures, didn’t make news. The current leader is even more quiet. I can’t think of his name immediately!
Elon doesn’t fit this pattern, doesn’t claim a manor. His operations are mainly in Texas now, but he clearly doesn’t run Texas. He doesn’t run any city or state, which may be why he tried to own the whole country last year.
Earlier I compared Elon with Henry Kaiser. This amplifies the similarity. Kaiser was equally unmanored. He started with a gravel and cement company here in Spokane and ran his dam-building firm here. His aluminum plants were all over the west including here, and his wartime boatbuilding was in LA. The company stayed in LA. When offshoring destroyed aluminum, Kaiser morphed into hospitals, now its primary line of business. Like Elon, Henry Kaiser didn’t leave a mark on his locations, didn’t endow parks or colleges. There’s nothing named after him here except the remaining mid-size aluminum plant.
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