anth_anm

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by anth_anm 8y ago
Or just pay them for waiting.
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by anth_anm 8y ago
I'm confused. They build infrastructure and get a percentage of revenues as payment? I'm fine with that. or they just want giveaways in order to do it at all.
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by anth_anm 8y ago
People keep saying this like it's an absurd proposition that no one would be fine with. Also you could restrict the programs a whole lot more, even if you think they should keep existing.
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by anth_anm 8y ago
Instead they wasted how much time and money on a fake search, only to have the whole thing blow up in their face. The idea that they had to do this out of "obligation to shareholders" is ridiculous. Amazon has avoided profit in se
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by anth_anm 8y ago
> Mortgage Interest deductions Can we get rid of those?
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by anth_anm 8y ago
I'm glad, maybe this will lead to a movement cracking down on that sort of corporate welfare in general.
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by anth_anm 8y ago
The massive talent pool and ease of recruiting people to come live there from across the world. The access to massive markets. Proximity to a lot of the hot new startups. The desire to have an HQ on both coasts. New Yorkers don't have
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by anth_anm 8y ago
> Giving them a ~10% off coupon on an extremely high tax rate is not the same as handing them money. Yes it is. How the hell is it not? and Amazon wants NYC for the size of it's talent pool and ease of recruiting. NYC has no reason
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by anth_anm 8y ago
Because the system is broken and Amazon knows that their dog and pony show about a competition will put politicians in a position where it's give away the money or face an opponent who attacks you on jobs.
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by anth_anm 8y ago
> But it's insanity for locals to be celebrating shooting themselves in the foot By preventing the massive rent increases and forcing out of the locals that Amazon will bring? Damn, that must suck.
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by anth_anm 8y ago
She's dumb and doesn't understand that giving away 3 billion to a company is good and also tax credits aren't giveaways because reasons. I'm smart and don't understand districting.
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by anth_anm 8y ago
> then break it down vs jobs No. No giveaways like this. None. Zero. If Amazon wants welfare for jobs, then tell them to screw off and let another company come in that will employ people without handouts.
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by anth_anm 8y ago
> Some people misunderstood that the $3B was a credit, not real cash being gifted to Amazon. If the government gives me a 25k deduction on my taxes, does that not end up as money in my pocket? I don't understand why this is differen
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by anth_anm 8y ago
> was only 10% of the expected tax revenue That's 10% too much. > But because of poor numeracy and a poor understanding of the conditions of the break or the nature of tax deductions, a lot of people had sticker shock at the $3b
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by anth_anm 8y ago
Rents have been doing better over the while haven't they? Still have a massive shortage of housing to buy. :/
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by anth_anm 8y ago
"Amazon's rejection". Interesting way to phrase what happened.
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by anth_anm 8y ago
Perhaps consider that not everyone who disagrees with you is an ignorant fool.
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by anth_anm 8y ago
It's more like asking for a discount cause you want 20 cars. Guaranteed sale is nice, but if I think I can clear out those cars pretty easily without a discount I'm gonna be a lot less inclined to do it.
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by anth_anm 8y ago
The part where it's mostly overpaid software devs living in a bubble. I live in that part of Seattle. It's the same part where people want to ban all cars because they never have to go anywhere that isn't walking distance, an
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by anth_anm 8y ago
It's because then politicians can run on "I BROUGHT AMAZON HERE! JOBS! GREAT JOBS!".
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by anth_anm 8y ago
> And would the employees of these businesses earn on average equal to or greater than the average NYC Amazon employee? Does it matter? If they earn enough to live and spend locally then isn't that good enough? Some Amazon employee
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by anth_anm 8y ago
It's not irrational. What's irrational is not following up by banning every single deal of this type. Every single one.
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by anth_anm 8y ago
I'll choose that 0 over giving away 3 billion every day. I don't care how you try to justify this sort of corruption.
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by anth_anm 8y ago
> NYC won HQ2 originally in spite of not giving nearly as much as other jurisdictions were willing to. Because the entire "competition" was a sham. Amazon was never going to park the future of the company into a place lacking
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by anth_anm 8y ago
It's not a thin skin so much as it is submitting on an ongoing narrative. They probably hoped they could do this and end up with the tax breaks, the NYC offices they want, more favorable conditions, and the public would laud them for i
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by anth_anm 8y ago
As someone in Seattle, what excites me about this is Amazon hopefully thinking twice about trying to extort subsidies Boeing style.
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by anth_anm 8y ago
No, people recognize that the standard is bribery and corruption.
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by anth_anm 8y ago
No way, push for something like GDPR to be common around the world.
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by anth_anm 8y ago
and it's horrible.
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by anth_anm 8y ago
The problem is that where you draw the lines around liability at that point? If I'm running a hosting company should I be liable if someone posts content in violation of copyright? Even if I'm trying to run an honest business and

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