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If +/- a few thousand workers isn't a big deal then why is it being made a big deal by all these comments? Obviously it's going to make an impact. My point is t
by nyokodo 9y ago
If +/- a few thousand workers isn't a big deal then why is it being made a big deal by all these comments? Obviously it's going to make an impact. My point is that the corporation and workers and associated economic multipliers will be adding a net positive to city revenue. If it wasn't going to do that I doubt hundreds of cities would be competing for it.
- dragonwriter 9y agoDirect employment numbers are direct revenues are easily, concretely associated with the deal, indirect infrastructure impacts are less in peoples minds, harder to concretely attribute and easier to cloud, and take a longer time to be palpable. Politicians overweight the former kind of measured (because they have more effect on political careers) and devalue the latter (for the opposite reason.) Cities aren't actors, they are just abstractions; politicians are the actors pursuing Amazon.