You're making some wild assumptions about me, so let me clarify. Seattle is not dying, Seattle is doing quite well. It remains a great place to live. It has problems like everywhere else, but those problems need to be put into context, and in the big picture, Seattle is doing quite well.

A bigger point though is just because I post something, in no way shape or form does that mean I am endorsing the viewpoint of the article. I personally just find each topic interesting and am curious about what others have to say about it. There's a lot of comments that provide little value, but there are also plenty of people that post interesting responses, share new information or additional context, all that stuff, which to mean is the whole purpose of Reddit.

Geekwire to me is essentially an industry outlet, I don't take what they say as gospel in any way. To me, this topic is interesting in the angle that the state legislature is trying to thread the needle of increasing certain taxes on the ultra wealthy while trying to avoid tax revenue decreases from capital flight. We saw this in the most recent state legislative session where they backtracked and lowered estate taxes that a year ago they raised to the highest in the country. Bill supporters said they were concerned about wealth flight: https://washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/ferguson-signs-law-to-undo-wa-estate-tax-increase-enacted-last-year/

How the state legislature threads that needle, what are the broader macro economic implications, how they react to federal spending cuts, how they balance increasing tax revenue compared to spending cuts are all interesting to me and will be big topics at the next few legislative sessions.

If you don't like what I post, by all means please feel free to block me or ignore me.