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I think this is a great move, I'm currently visiting my folks in Nevada and my mother works for the State often dealing with Mentally Ill people who also often
by atlasunshrugged 7y ago
I think this is a great move, I'm currently visiting my folks in Nevada and my mother works for the State often dealing with Mentally Ill people who also often become homeless. She was driving me around town showing me what was new after the few years I've been gone and she took me to the main shelter for homeless people. I'm used to seeing homeless on the street after living in SF but it was a good reminder of how many people have to live - and not just junkies or the usual stereotypes but lots of people who run into hard times, lose their homes and have to live in their car and then lose that and so many other ways people end up on the streets in America. I think a homeless shelter in the campus of Amazon's HQ will probably serve as a grounding experience like mine for others too and hopefully spur a little additional compassion and understanding
- number6 7y agoI heared this would be shelters for homeless amazon workers. But this sounded a bit wild and dystopian for me.
- atlasunshrugged 7y agoI didn't see that in the article, that would be pretty wild
- starpilot 7y agoI think it'd be called corporate housing in that case.
- zozbot234 7y agoHeck they're being sheltered right there already, might as well help with shipping some packages while they're at it. /s
- tibbydudeza 7y agoAnd ideal Amazon Flex recruiting pool.
- greendude29 7y agoI think this is a terrible move. Shelters are NOT a solution to homelessness. This move will give Amazon false bragging rights to say, hey look, our operational style, not paying taxes, and lobbying for a society that punishes the poor more than the rich aren't really that bad because we're helping the homeless. Even if Amazon is able to put every homeless person in the United States in a shelter (they certainly can afford it), that would not be a good thing. That is validating a bifurcated system where we become content with the living conditions of the poor while excusing those who create the system that creates those conditions in the first place (Amazon in this case)
- ryanlol 7y ago>not paying taxes How much taxes should Amazon be paying in your opinion?
- monoideism 7y agoVastly, vastly more than zero, which is what they have paid the past few years.
- sieabahlpark 7y agoIf you actually looked up what they did instead is reinvest to grow the company you'd understand that the taxable income is where that "missing" money is. Stop parroting around uninformed talking points as if they're cut and dry truth. Do you want to punish companies for providing jobs to more people in the area instead?
- sneak 7y agoAmazon pays absolutely mind-bogglingly immense amounts of payroll taxes. To claim that Amazon pays no tax is more than a little bit incorrect. The people they employ pay income taxes, as well, which come out of Amazon’s revenue ultimately. There are many reasons to hate them. Their complying with the tax laws as they are currently written is not one of them.