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You’ve also got to read the room. The mood in the US is not in favor of hard charging mavericks of industry. This approach today would likely backfire spectacul

You’ve also got to read the room. The mood in the US is not in favor of hard charging mavericks of industry. This approach today would likely backfire spectacularly. Big Tech should be locating large employment centers in strategic locations around the country. And by strategic I don’t mean where the talent, resources, or customers are located but rather where influential Congresspeople, Senators, and Governors are located. Then wield your soft power with these folks, e.g. “You can break us up but it’s just going to cost your district/state massive job losses”. Next, meet with other agitating politicians to find out their underlying motivations and help them to achieve those things - doesn’t even need to be real, just help make them look good for their next re-election campaign. So Bezos should work out a public deal with Bernie and AOC to raise Amazon’s minimum wage to $20 an hour. Bernie and AOC will look like progressive heroes but would be effectively defanged in continuing to attack Amazon (to a large degree).

ojbyrne 5y ago
At least 1 company has beaten you to that idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_HQ2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_HQ2
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Growling_owl 5y ago
This strategy would have worked before MMT took over, now politicians don't need to bring about jobs, they can just print money and pass deficits of epic proportions and substitute the private sector with the state. Especially Democrats they have no regards for fiscal responsibility , they'd have no qualms in breaking up Amazon, knowing full well that the next step would be to install a dependency scheme in the form of UBI financed via fiscal deficits.
klaudius 5y ago
Big Tech should be locating large employment centers in strategic locations around the country. And by strategic I don’t mean where the talent, resources, or customers are located but rather where influential Congresspeople, Senators, and Governors are located. I thought this was one of the problems of a Soviet style command economy. They would locate production not where it was more efficient and made economic sense, but where it was politically more beneficial. If these companies start doing this they could lose to more efficient competition. Hope they aren't that stupid.
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  *Less efficient competition if they can't get the government to vote their way
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ojbyrne 5y ago

At least 1 company has beaten you to that idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_HQ2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_HQ2

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Growling_owl 5y ago

This strategy would have worked before MMT took over, now politicians don't need to bring about jobs, they can just print money and pass deficits of epic proportions and substitute the private sector with the state. Especially Democrats they have no regards for fiscal responsibility , they'd have no qualms in breaking up Amazon, knowing full well that the next step would be to install a dependency scheme in the form of UBI financed via fiscal deficits.

klaudius 5y ago

Big Tech should be locating large employment centers in strategic locations around the country. And by strategic I don’t mean where the talent, resources, or customers are located but rather where influential Congresspeople, Senators, and Governors are located. I thought this was one of the problems of a Soviet style command economy. They would locate production not where it was more efficient and made economic sense, but where it was politically more beneficial. If these companies start doing this they could lose to more efficient competition. Hope they aren't that stupid.

8note 5y ago
*Less efficient competition if they can't get the government to vote their way
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