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Re:Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Should Be Illegal by konschubert on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @03:48PM (#18444741)
Amazon would have created those jobs either way, maybe just elsewhere.

So every dollar spent is a dollar lost for the US.

Re:Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Should Be Illegal by chrisseaton on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @05:08PM (#18445390)
...unless the cities competing got them to create a better environment for Amazon and so made Amazon more productive, earning more money overall.