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Capitalism is disgusting. World's richest man is going to rob two cities blind with promises of jobs. Just a massive giveaway to the man who literally has the
by stuckinarut 8y ago
Capitalism is disgusting.
World's richest man is going to rob two cities blind with promises of jobs. Just a massive giveaway to the man who literally has the least need in the world.
Guess they don't want the people actually having any say.
> pitched the idea of Amazon University, with a customized curriculum developed in partnership with Amazon and local universities
Just gonna go full company town I guess.
> added $38 billion to Seattle’s economy from 2010 to 2016.
and made it impossible to get a modest tax passed.
> “They are about ending inequality and creating more inclusive cities,” said Richard Florida, a professor at the School of Cities and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. “Now they’re in a game competing with one another to throw money at one of the most powerful companies in the world run by one of the world’s richest men.”
Yup, because they want to be able to say they brought amazon in. It fucks over the people who already lives there, increases inequality, and ultimately doesn't really help that many people other than Jeff.
- dang 8y agoThis comment violates the HN guidelines. We don't want ideological battle here (not to mention low-rent rants). That's not because we're capitalist pigs or socialist moochers; it's because it's all repetitive and therefore boring, and it leads directly to flamewar. All scorched earth is the same. You've been posting a lot of this for a long time. We ban accounts that do that, so I've banned this one. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll use the site as intended. In the meantime, would you please not create accounts to break HN's rules with? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- fipple 8y agoExcept for the first line it is a fairly interesting comment.
- dang 8y agoPerhaps I'm missing something, but it reads like a predictable rant to me, the kind of comment that destroys thoughtful discussion rather than supports it. That goes against the kind of website we want HN to be. Of course a good paint-stripping rant can be great fun (or outraging, a variant of the same), and there are other kinds of website for that. Plenty of kinds of critique don't have this effect, and most HN users have no trouble practicing them—it's mostly just a question of wanting to.
- censoredbyhn 8y agooh please. if it's not within the bounds of the echo chamber you clamp down on it without ever allowing discussion to form. Your style of proactive moderation does keep the site consistent, at the cost of a great deal of real thought. Frankly, I think your style is god awful. I think you're ruining what could be a good discussion site with aggressive and arbitrary censorship of opinions you don't like.
- goliatone 8y agoI don’t have a bone to pick in this back and forth, however there’s something I don’t fully understand from dang’s comment: what does “low-rent rant” mean? Never heard the expression before and I don’t know if it’s a pun to the subject of the article or something else entirely referencing the tone of the OP’s comment.
- dang 8y agoBy "low-rent" I just mean easy, cheap, and of dubious value.