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Some industries locate outside cities because high urban land costs can outweigh the benefits of proximity, so space‑intensive or low‑margin operations move to cheaper locations to cut costs.
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Transformers can't work with DC because they require a changing current to produce changing magnetic flux; steady DC creates no changing flux and therefore induces no secondary voltage.
Once in office, leaders reshape voting rules and districts to favor their supporting blocs because altering institutions lowers the cost of maintaining a coalition and raises barriers that make rivals' victory harder.
Some devices use grid frequency as a time reference, so frequency stability is critical because counting AC oscillations requires a consistent nominal frequency and deviations cause timing errors.
Democratic leaders invest in public goods because raising citizens' productivity expands the tax base, so even with lower tax rates the absolute resources available to reward supporters and fund government increase.
Welfare policies can weaken family formation because benefits that reward single-parent status or penalize cohabitation create incentives for people to divorce or avoid marriage to secure aid.
When a ruler needs few keys, concentrated rewards and a reliance on force favor ruthless actors because extracting loyalty and wealth becomes the quickest path to keep power, outcompeting those who invest in public goods.
Cities make wealth possible because urban concentration cuts transaction and transport frictions, boosts specialization, and accelerates knowledge spillovers, which together amplify productive activity and output.