If it was the correct choice, NYC decision-makers made it correctly merely by accident. Not a single person in 2017 was cleverly predicting the insane knock-on

If it was the correct choice, NYC decision-makers made it correctly merely by accident. Not a single person in 2017 was cleverly predicting the insane knock-on effects of COVID with respect to commercial real estate prices, over-hiring, or the subsequent layoffs. But it's not at all clear it was correct. Amazon originally said they planned to hire 25,000 people over 10 years. The article says they already hired 8,000 people and are pausing some expansion of construction on one of two sites. They currently have capacity built for 14,000 people. As the article mentions, they are still ahead of their original schedule, despite everything that's happened since then. That doesn't seem like a very big deal and still a big net win for jobs in the area. The people shitting on woke New York for fumbling the ball are still substantially right: DC is getting those jobs and NYC is not.