If the state wants to create a job, why don’t (capital-T) They hire somebody to change-up the press releases (1, 2) for corporate welfare awards. Well, you say, if the state wanted to create jobs, it wouldn’t be giving away corporate welfare. The practice of picking winners and losers serves to gentrify by depleting funds in the middle class to empower large multinationals to knock mom and pop shops out of business. The cycle continues as multinationals make sure those who play the game stay in office. Sweet!