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And if Amazon is trying to set up a distribution center in your state, county, or town: fight it. At the very least insist on language that prohibits any sort
by KennyBlanken 5y ago
And if Amazon is trying to set up a distribution center in your state, county, or town: fight it.
At the very least insist on language that prohibits any sort of corporate welfare. No tax breaks, no free infrastructure.
Bezos is the richest man in the world; he can afford to run a new sewer or water main to his big fancy warehouses, instead of making a county's worth of low-income blue-collar folks pay for it. He can afford to pay property tax. Etc
Same for Walmart.
Same for every fucking corporation.
Stop giving corporations breaks to "bring jobs" to your town. Soon as that corporation finds a better deal somewhere else, or the workers get too 'uppity', they'll shop around and move to a town more desperate than yours.
- thelucky41 5y agoIf the next town over does not follow this strategy, you will quickly find yourself in a diminished community with less public services and available jobs.
- randmeerkat 5y agoIf we insist on giving up our principles because someone else may also give up their principles, then we’re damned to a race to the bottom that neither of us will ever escape.
- throwaway2048 5y ago"better things aren't possible" isn't the cutting rebuttal people think it is.
- Jiejeing 5y agoIf has been shown that opening an amazon warehouse in a location actually destroys more job than it creates.
- hhs 5y agoThe writers of South Park commented on this (and which, more broadly, was inspired by a Ray Bradbury novel): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Wall-Mart_This_Way_Comes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Wall-Mart_This_Way_C...