AOC was right. Amazon, Twitter, and Facebook are moving to NYC anyways WITHOUT tax incentive
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fukk that use that tax money in the schools or the subway
Not all that surprising if you know much about the tech industry.
I’m just going to quote a post I made in the thread about the two winning cities from Amazon’s initial HQ2 “contest”:
I’m just going to quote a post I made in the thread about the two winning cities from Amazon’s initial HQ2 “contest”:
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
When they give them a tax break.
Chess not checkers.
while google, microsoft, facebook, etc are on a hiring spree for the best software engineers in the city, amazon is gonna institute a hiring freeze in NYC unless they get a tax-break
You think Amazon is bringing 25k jobs to NYC yes or no?while google, microsoft, facebook, etc are on a hiring spree for the best software engineers in the city, amazon is gonna institute a hiring freeze in NYC unless they get a tax-break
You think Amazon is bringing 25k jobs to NYC yes or no?
no I don't and i didn't believe that figure when they said it last year either. Just keep your eye on Virginia and see if amazon delivers the 25k jobs they promised.
So on one hand you believe they are in an arms race to hire talent, but then you also don't believe they're actually going to hire the talent needed to fill a second headquarters.
You're being dishonest.
Just say you're okay with 1500 jobs.
that 25k jobs was bullshyt and not guaranteed, plus it wouldnt have been 25k new yorkers, it wouldve been tech jerk offs that they brought in that would price everyone out of that hood and who knows maybe all of queens eventually, look at seattle.
Amazon Leases New Manhattan Office Space, Less Than a Year After HQ2 Pullout
Tech giant agrees to take 335,000 square feet in Hudson Yards neighborhood in deal without any financial incentives from city or state
Amazon’s new offices on the west side of Manhattan will be situated in the new Hudson Yards neighborhood and house more than 1,500 employees. Photo: lucas jackson/Reuters
By
Keiko Morris
Updated Dec. 6, 2019 5:42 pm ET
This is huge cause that was one of the MAIN criticisms I've heard of her, that she somehow "hurt New York."
That's a meaningless comparison because those people earning "outrageous salaries" apply from all over the country to work at those companies. Tech folk just relocate wherever the jobs are and they even get paid to move, so what you bytching about? In fact, all those high-paid tech workers moving in can destroy the cost of living - look at how hard it is to get by on a low salary in San Fran, Seattle, New York, etc.
Meanwhile, a manufacturing plant actually employs local people. I agree the lower pay is bullshyt which is why there should be a higher federal minimum wage and better federal union protections to even the playing field.
And posters using "hoe babble" for just anything now.
Nah, I doubt that 25,000 would grow it would actually be the opposite. When companies are applying for tax breaks they lie their asses off about how many people they going to hire. Look at the situation in Wisconsin. They were given nearly $5 billion in tax breaks on the promise of creating 13,000 jobs.
It's been two years so far and they've only hired a few hundred people. They've "promised" they'll be up to 1,500 jobs by next May but no one believes them. At this point it's generally accepted that they will never, ever reach 13,000 jobs.
This is happening in all the major cities around the world. Even Toronto is getting to that point. Just a place for the rich and wealthy. I never thought we’d see a living wage anytime soon but it is gonna happen sooner than I thought. shyt is not sustainable.
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Yeah folks stay lumping in these second tier cities in with LA, SF, and NY.
This is huge cause that was one of the MAIN criticisms I've heard of her, that she somehow "hurt New York."
That's a meaningless comparison because those people earning "outrageous salaries" apply from all over the country to work at those companies. Tech folk just relocate wherever the jobs are and they even get paid to move, so what you bytching about? In fact, all those high-paid tech workers moving in can destroy the cost of living - look at how hard it is to get by on a low salary in San Fran, Seattle, New York, etc.
Meanwhile, a manufacturing plant actually employs local people. I agree the lower pay is bullshyt which is why there should be a higher federal minimum wage and better federal union protections to even the playing field.
And posters using "hoe babble" for just anything now.
Nah, I doubt that 25,000 would grow it would actually be the opposite. When companies are applying for tax breaks they lie their asses off about how many people they going to hire. Look at the situation in Wisconsin. They were given nearly $5 billion in tax breaks on the promise of creating 13,000 jobs.
It's been two years so far and they've only hired a few hundred people. They've "promised" they'll be up to 1,500 jobs by next May but no one believes them. At this point it's generally accepted that they will never, ever reach 13,000 jobs.
that foxconn Wisconsin fiasco had so much fukkery,
this podcast episode about it is pretty good.
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