“…We have talked before about the dangers of wealth extraction from local economies [14], and how ownership of infrastructure matters [15], if paying next-to-no taxation results in technological innovation, along with the graduates disappearing behind corporate firewalls, because they, rather than the universities, are the institutions that can afford to do blue-skies research. It is a salutary lesson to visit the NASA Space Center in Cape Canaveral: the monument to human technological achievement is extraordinary.…”