Cities’ Offers for Amazon Base Are Secrets Even to Many City Leaders
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Re: Cities’ Offers for Amazon Base Are Secrets Even to Many City Leaders
#2DC should just let Amazon run the city government as Amazon sees fit. I wouldn’t mind living in an Amazon company town, I bet they’d shape things up around here.
Re: Cities’ Offers for Amazon Base Are Secrets Even to Many City Leaders
#3Why is Amazon negotiating/receiving offers from outside the gov't? Seems odd.
They could pick a specific city and the city council could say "hell no" or just be unable to pass legislation to deliver on it.
Re: Cities’ Offers for Amazon Base Are Secrets Even to Many City Leaders
#4DC should just let Amazon run the city government as Amazon sees fit. I wouldn’t mind living in an Amazon company town, I bet they’d shape things up around here.
Yeah, high-ish salaries. Everyone works until 10pm. Get off work and get drunk. Complain about how Amazon took away your life and cost you your marriage, but hey they offer free marriage counseling now as a result (true story).
Rinse and repeat.
That's what I see around SLU.
Amazon is incredibly efficient, and that's good. But please don't let them take over a city with their work life culture.
Re: Cities’ Offers for Amazon Base Are Secrets Even to Many City Leaders
#5DC should just let Amazon run the city government as Amazon sees fit. I wouldn’t mind living in an Amazon company town, I bet they’d shape things up around here.
Yeah, high-ish salaries. Everyone works until 10pm. Get off work and get drunk. Complain about how Amazon took away your life and cost you your marriage, but hey they offer free marriage counseling now as a result (true story). Rinse and repeat. That's what I see around SLU. Amazon is incredibly efficient, and that's good. But please don't let them take over a city with their work life culture.
Sounds like Hong Kong.
Re: Cities’ Offers for Amazon Base Are Secrets Even to Many City Leaders
#6DC should just let Amazon run the city government as Amazon sees fit. I wouldn’t mind living in an Amazon company town, I bet they’d shape things up around here.
Yeah, high-ish salaries. Everyone works until 10pm. Get off work and get drunk. Complain about how Amazon took away your life and cost you your marriage, but hey they offer free marriage counseling now as a result (true story). Rinse and repeat. That's what I see around SLU. Amazon is incredibly efficient, and that's good. But please don't let them take over a city with their work life culture.
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Re: Cities’ Offers for Amazon Base Are Secrets Even to Many City Leaders
#7DC should just let Amazon run the city government as Amazon sees fit. I wouldn’t mind living in an Amazon company town, I bet they’d shape things up around here.
Congress doesn't even let DC run itself as it sees fit.
Re: Cities’ Offers for Amazon Base Are Secrets Even to Many City Leaders
#8Why is Amazon negotiating/receiving offers from outside the gov't? Seems odd. They could pick a specific city and the city council could say "hell no" or just be unable to pass legislation to deliver on it.
My cynical side says that this is a feature, not a bug - a litmus test to see whether or not the selected city will be politically pliable under Amazon's significant financial leverage.
Any city that can't pass (or force through) favorable legislation isn't one that Amazon would want to choose long-term anyway, especially viewed in the context of their relationships with local governments in Seattle [0]. The key point here is that this is a descriptive feature that's hard to ask about, but easy to test for.
0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogervaldez/2018/07/31/good-new...
Re: Cities’ Offers for Amazon Base Are Secrets Even to Many City Leaders
#9DC should just let Amazon run the city government as Amazon sees fit. I wouldn’t mind living in an Amazon company town, I bet they’d shape things up around here.
Yeah, high-ish salaries. Everyone works until 10pm. Get off work and get drunk. Complain about how Amazon took away your life and cost you your marriage, but hey they offer free marriage counseling now as a result (true story). Rinse and repeat. That's what I see around SLU. Amazon is incredibly efficient, and that's good. But please don't let them take over a city with their work life culture.
>Yeah, high-ish salaries
Judging from the conditions in their warehouses, I doubt this would be true for all the other labor needed to run the city...
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