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This is what Amazon is getting to have their multiple HQs by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/18/2018, 10:09am PST
Amazon's Ransom Vs. Stadium Deals: Which Is Worse?

The most important numbers in the Amazon deal may not be those in the winning bids, but rather the losing ones: New Jersey offered $7 billion, and Maryland $8.5 billion, but both were passed up for neighboring states that offered significantly less. This is an indication that for corporate headquarters as for sports teams, owners go where they want to be anyway—it’s just that they make sure to extract as much public cash as possible along the way.

“Many people were expecting a D.C. headquarters for Amazon solely for the political connections before even a dollar is put down,” notes Matheson. “This is like New York City paying hundreds of millions to keep the Yankees when there was literally no chance of the Yankees moving.”

So while Arlington may be deemed the relative winner here for landing the same number of Amazon jobs as New York at a fraction of the cost, and even New York can pat itself on the back for a marginally less horrific deal than it agreed to for the Yankees and Mets, ultimately the losers are everyone in America. The Amazon deal is ultimately another step in the legitimization of government by extortion, where the nation’s richest men can withhold “job creation” as a condition of not having to pay taxes, or commute without a helicopter. This may indeed be business as usual, but that’s not an argument in its favor, like so many Amazon-backers seem to think it is.


A lot of us that are left work in I.T. For as awful as those deals are I can't care too much because my hometown wasn't affected. It is so much nicer from my side having AWS instances instead of physical machines.

Another thing that happens in my town - not so much any more, but constantly a couple years ago - was that postal carriers would mark a package as delivered and not deliver it. I had to assume they kept the package. Our postal center was shut down a few months ago. I don't know that it was because of the rampant theft, but it had to be, right? If I ordered through Amazon and this happened they would send another item out. (And we could use my wife's family's house as a destination.) I can't begin to describe how nice that is of them. That policy is helping them corner the market on anything we order that can be delivered. The Amazon locker thing also means that I can pick something up (smallish, granted) by walking a couple blocks over lunch while at work. They have so many great ideas, I can't get worked up if New York State sent them billions and they were going to be in NYC anyway because it doesn't affect me and their stuff is so good.

What do you guys think?

ICJ
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