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Re:Why do so many companies incorporate in Delaware? by aasasd on Sunday April 11, 2021 @09:11PM (#26775182)
Funny enough, it's a rather common trope in fiction, which loves to stereotype people into stratums by any imaginable criteria. IIRC blog posts were pointing out the geographical specialization in Hunger Games and saying that it's pretty ridiculous because not fault-tolerant. Basically, if California were to break off and fall into the ocean, a huge chunk of US tech and entertainment sectors would disappear.
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Re:Why do so many companies incorporate in Delaware? by aasasd on Monday April 12, 2021 @05:10AM (#26777336)
Ah, and the second objection is cost of transportation, I think. Which is probably the main real-life reason to have at least some finance and law firms in CA and not shuttle all documents to NY or Dover and back again.
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Re:Why do so many companies incorporate in Delaware? by throwbigdata on Sunday April 11, 2021 @10:22PM (#26775553)
One of those would be a problem.
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Re:Why do so many companies incorporate in Delaware? by aasasd on Monday April 12, 2021 @09:50AM (#26779404)
You really don't think that the US exports a ton of media and entertainment? And that, for example, it happens to impose and protect copyright laws to make sure those profits continue?

I have trouble finding the export figures, but there's this:

> The global media and entertainment market was worth $1.9 trillion in 2016, with extrapolations ranging to $2.14 trillion by 2020. About one third of the total ($735 billion in 2017) is made up by the U.S. entertainment industry.

Edit: seems the export figure is quite a bit smaller, CNN lists tv/movies together with software at 49 billion: https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/07/news/economy/top-us-exports...

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Re:Why do so many companies incorporate in Delaware? by dopidopHN on Monday April 12, 2021 @01:02AM (#26776205)
I actually would be more concern about the food produced in California.

The tech will be figured out elsewhere. The data center outside of the region would be fine.

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Re:Why do so many companies incorporate in Delaware? by heavyset_go on Monday April 12, 2021 @01:18AM (#26776264)
Yeah, as 2020 has shown me, I'll get pretty bored without a steady stream of new entertainment to enjoy.
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