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Look at their home in Seattle. The influx of people is pushing up housing prices to pretty unbearable levels. It's not as bad as the Bay Area, but the homeless
by djsumdog 8y ago
Look at their home in Seattle. The influx of people is pushing up housing prices to pretty unbearable levels. It's not as bad as the Bay Area, but the homeless situation there has been bad for a long time.
The large Seattle companies also work in discount deals for housing, which is far from ethical or fair:
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/is-it-housing-bias-when-seattle-landlords-cater-to-preferred-employees/ https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/is-it-hou...
People are critical because Amazon has rarely given to charity, or when they do it's something like letting a charity temporally use an existing building before they renovate it:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazons-donating-a-building-to-temporarily-house-homeless-in-seattle_us_57111e8be4b0018f9cb9ea8e https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amazons-donating-a-buil...
I mean, maybe we shouldn't be so critical if Bezos is legitimately concerned and they're doing something, but I can understand why people are skeptical based on their track record.
- skufuor 8y agoAnd they're planning on permanently giving them space in one of the new office buildings. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-creating-a-place-for-hundreds-of-homeless-on-its-shiny-new-seattle-campus/ https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-creating... Disclosure: i work at Amazon.