What Happened To Guymon After Economic Development Deals With Seaboard Farms and WalMart?

After Julianne has told Michael and Jenni about how the grift of economic development works, Michael tells Jenni and Julia about what happened to the town he grew up in - Guymon, Oklahoma - after the town created economic development deals with WalMart and Seaboard Farms. Small towns can't remain small towns when multinational corporations come in. Multinational corporations care about their bottom line - not about the health of the community. How would any town be bettered by shutting mom and pop enterprises out of competition with a multinational corporations? Town kids could grow up and work at businesses run by members of the community. Town money then stays in the town, promoting the town's values and not a large employer's.

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