Will Trump’s win make the rocky marriage between big tech and big blue cities even worse?
America’s bluest big cities are in a tense, co-dependent relationship with the tech giants that power their economies and anchor their prosperity.
It didn’t start out that way. When tech giants first decided, about 20 years ago, to decamp from their cloistered suburban enclaves to embed themselves in the vibrant hearts of big blue cities, a torrid big tech bromance with urban America flourished. But what initially seemed to be the perfect marriage of shared progressive cultural values has soured. Now Trump’s big win threatens to further divide blue city leaders from some of the tech giants…
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