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I think Amazon should have gone the exact opposite way: buy a small, failing city to become Amazon's. There are plenty around the US and the world. Bring in you
by virmundi 9y ago
I think Amazon should have gone the exact opposite way: buy a small, failing city to become Amazon's. There are plenty around the US and the world. Bring in your people. Pay people to relocate. Allow the spouses of those employees to create small businesses. Essentially make Eureka.
- joezydeco 9y agoThey can't get people to relocate to Seattle, much less a town in the middle of nowhere.
- virmundi 9y agoI wonder if that's due to cost of living. Seattle is expensive. Palatka Florida? Not so much.
- beisner 9y agoIt’s not due to cost of living, most of the software engineers straight out of school (in my cohort, at least) want to be in NYC or SF. Amazon does the bulk of their recruiting from new grads, so a large contingent of their workforce is disincentivized from working outside those areas.
- Rapzid 9y agoPalatka stinks. Literally, it smells. Unless they shut the paper factory?
- virmundi 9y agoThey haven't. But you get use to it. Besides, one of the main draws is eco-tourism. If done right, we could have eco-houses for the Amazon folk.
- Rapzid 9y agoInteresting. I hope to get a chance to visit the area again before too long. My entire childhood was spent in Keystone Heights; right up to adolescence when we left Florida. Wasn't sure if I was mis-remembering the paper mill :)
- krapp 9y agoAny city owned and run by Amazon wouldn't be Eureka, because that's not what in Amazon's interests. It would be a company town straight out of last century, and most of its citizens would be little more than slum-dwelling wage slaves. But, it would have one hell of an airport.
- ng12 9y agoExcept your wage slaves can leave at any time for well-paying jobs elsewhere.