Perfectson
Banned
her analogy makes no sense, we know where the $300 coupon came from, it wasn't made up out of thin air. The original poster was correct in his analogy.
She should focus on her green new deal...she's continues taking Ls
Amazon's HQ2 moving to Northern VA and NYC; 2/14: Amazon pulls out of NYC after public backlash!
her analogy makes no sense, we know where the $300 coupon came from, it wasn't made up out of thin air. The original poster was correct in his analogy.
She should focus on her green new deal...she's continues taking Ls
Hamburgers and beef companies do harm the environment
Why didnt Amazon want to open itself up for questions pertaining to its business practices
AnonymityX1000
Veteran
Amazon knew if they came here they would be getting smoke the entire time year after year from politicians here in NYC. They didn't want it. Really the whole competition thing backfired. It made them all high profile and on everyone's radar.Hamburgers and beef companies do harm the environment
Why didnt Amazon want to open itself up for questions pertaining to its business practices
Big businesses don’t hold public sweepstakes like it’s the Hunger Games to pit cities against each other and squeeze the most tax breaks possible. That’s not normal. General Electric moved from Connecticut to Boston and that was it. Boston had favorable terms and they moved. Google moved a HQ to New York. No pomp and circumstance. They just came. They didn’t put out a country wide press release and tell everyone to come with their best offer or else
It goes back to this Reddit post.
And particularly this:
I think people underestimate how big the tech scene is here. It's one of the largest in the country outside of SF/Silicon Valley. Between the location and the tech workers already here, Amazon was probably always going to expand their presence here.
Amazon needs a larger presence in NYC more than NYC needs a larger Amazon presence.
NYC will be fine
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Perfectson
Banned
Hamburgers and beef companies do harm the environment
Why didnt Amazon want to open itself up for questions pertaining to its business practices
no company wants to be regulated - and the stockholders don't want it either, nor do board members. It's no different than what Trump was doing when he attacked Amazon. Besos kept Trump's name out his mouth and just hoped he went away with time.
again it';s all show. Net net, Amazon deal would have been positive. You guys complaining about traffic or higher rents, meanwhile you're missing out on good paying jobs and creating a tech epicenter in Queens
Perfectson
Banned
It goes back to this Reddit post.
And particularly this:
I think people underestimate how big the tech scene is here. It's one of the largest in the country outside of SF/Silicon Valley. Between the location and the tech workers already here, Amazon was probably always going to expand their presence here.
Amazon needs a larger presence in NYC more than NYC needs a larger Amazon presence.
NYC will be fine M
Amazon can build it anywhere and wherever they build it, will become an technology hub. They don't need to be in NY...and with all the talent willing to leave NY, I disagree that they couldn't go to an Atlanta or Nashville (for HQ2) and attract talent/ Every major city is looking to build tech hubs...an Amazon would super charge that effort
Asking questions is regulation now
All that and cant stand up to scrutiny for business practices
.Keep delivering more AOC type politicians. The Dems won't win the White House if they keep having clueless nutjobs like her in office.
.Doesn't understand Amazon wasn't just being handed billions of dollars.
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It goes back to this Reddit post.
And particularly this:
I think people underestimate how big the tech scene is here. It's one of the largest in the country outside of SF/Silicon Valley. Between the location and the tech workers already here, Amazon was probably always going to expand their presence here.
Amazon needs a larger presence in NYC more than NYC needs a larger Amazon presence.
NYC will be fine
Exactly.
A lot of top end tech talent want to live in NYC so tech companies like Google, Facebook and others have offices there. Amazon has to come anyway if they want to keep retaining these people who might want to move back East so why would NYC bend over backwards for them? Amazon probably knew from jump they wanted DC and NYC and created this ruse so they could get the leverage they wouldn’t have got going to NYC straight up.
Json
Superstar
Congrats on reading so far between the lines you made a new statement for yourself.
I'm talking about the way corporations are defended by politicians in whatever pretzel logic makes sense to justify an action. Corporations as people was the start for a lot of people. That corporations need these incentives to come and that they're "job creators" are what matters. That the net benefit of jobs will somehow wipe away any ill-effects. That corporate taxes are a burden.
But when the argument is made in favor of Green deals, fixing infrastructure like Flint, or public assistance. The money isn't in the budget. Or it's socialism.
As if corporate welfare is some made up ideal by liberals who hate wealthy bootstrappers.
Regular people see politicians going to bat for them and the populist/socialist AOC/Bernies are gaining tractions for doing the opposite.
,why are you wasting time with this paid goofHamburgers and beef companies do harm the environment
Why didnt Amazon want to open itself up for questions pertaining to its business practices
Keep delivering more AOC type politicians. The Dems won't win the White House if they keep having clueless nutjobs like her in office.
Doesn't understand Amazon wasn't just being handed billions of dollars.
What's nutty about what she's done so far ?
He was getting cocky
Keep delivering more AOC type politicians. The Dems won't win the White House if they keep having clueless nutjobs like her in office.
Doesn't understand Amazon wasn't just being handed billions of dollars.
What's nutty about what she's done so far ?
He was getting cocky
New Jersey offered $7 billion in tax incentives.
Maryland offered $8.5 billion
Pittsburgh offered $9.7 billion in incentives.
If Amazon could've went anywhere, why didn't they go to any of the above places?
Instead, they settled on Northern Virginia, which is only giving Amazon about $570 million in incentives, and NYC. I wonder why
Perfectson
Banned
New Jersey offered $7 billion in tax incentives.
Maryland offered $8.5 billion
Pittsburgh offered $9.7 billion in incentives.
If Amazon could've went anywhere, why didn't they go to any of the above places?
Instead, they settled on Northern Virginia, which is only giving Amazon about $570 million in incentives, and NYC. I wonder why
There's various reasons, jersey would have given them the same access to talent, no? But rebuilding queens and the network they could have built is much easier in a place like new york and access directly to talent.
What im saying is amazon can attract talent anywhere they go, but there's direct access to a lot of things in new york ....its a no brainer