Amazon’s D.C. Move Threatens the Founders’ Vision for America

Making one of these cities the permanent capital would combine the new political elite with an existing economic elite, and the American democratic experiment would have been flawed from the beginning thanks to a concentrated, isolated aristocracy. (Back then, it took several days of travel to reach New York City from D.C.) Washington was also just 56 miles from the mean center of the U.S. population and 96 miles from the geographical center of the country at the time. These Amazon positions will be higher-level jobs, the kind that make Amazon officials part of the same powerful Washington networks as the higher-level political elite.

Source: www.politico.com