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Yeah it's super easy to move your family to the other side of the country and lose all your friends and what not. Not a hard decision at all

wutbrodo 8y ago
Unless this is literally your first time talking about something in the abstract, you should know that comments like the above are referring to stochastic shifts in behavior across an entire population. Unless you have an argument that labor never moves for some reason, this is an exceedingly stupid response.
geofft 8y ago
A good amount of hiring in these sectors is for people straight out of college, who generally have no family and are expecting to make new friends anyway. Also, if that's your argument, it makes a lot more sense for Amazon to open several small new offices through the country instead of a single new HQ in one city. (In fact another commenter is trying to argue against me on the grounds that people would be moving to NYC to take these jobs, and the lack of such moves is harming the NYC labor market. Perhaps the two of you should argue with each other.)
- grogenaut 8y ago
  Amazon actually has quite a few local offices now. 2k+ SF, 400+ in Irvine, 150+ in Denver, STL, Chicago, etc. Many of them went in as soon as Amazon figured out how to charge local sales tax in those states and happened in 2014-2015. Of Amazon's total dev population about 25% is college age. Much more is 5+10 years out of college and where Amazon is looking to recruit.
  - jjeaff 8y ago
    >figure out how to charge local sales tax That's laughable. Charging local sales tax was always a trivial excercise for Amazon. They fought it until they knew they couldn't win any more and then embraced it knowing that they would want to try to control the discussion and try to force any smaller competitors to comply as well to eliminate any advantage for their competition. In other words, they never would have started charging local sales tax if they thought they could get away with it.

wutbrodo 8y ago

Unless this is literally your first time talking about something in the abstract, you should know that comments like the above are referring to stochastic shifts in behavior across an entire population. Unless you have an argument that labor never moves for some reason, this is an exceedingly stupid response.

geofft 8y ago

A good amount of hiring in these sectors is for people straight out of college, who generally have no family and are expecting to make new friends anyway. Also, if that's your argument, it makes a lot more sense for Amazon to open several small new offices through the country instead of a single new HQ in one city. (In fact another commenter is trying to argue against me on the grounds that people would be moving to NYC to take these jobs, and the lack of such moves is harming the NYC labor market. Perhaps the two of you should argue with each other.)

grogenaut 8y ago
Amazon actually has quite a few local offices now. 2k+ SF, 400+ in Irvine, 150+ in Denver, STL, Chicago, etc. Many of them went in as soon as Amazon figured out how to charge local sales tax in those states and happened in 2014-2015. Of Amazon's total dev population about 25% is college age. Much more is 5+10 years out of college and where Amazon is looking to recruit.
- jjeaff 8y ago
  >figure out how to charge local sales tax That's laughable. Charging local sales tax was always a trivial excercise for Amazon. They fought it until they knew they couldn't win any more and then embraced it knowing that they would want to try to control the discussion and try to force any smaller competitors to comply as well to eliminate any advantage for their competition. In other words, they never would have started charging local sales tax if they thought they could get away with it.