Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Should Be Illegal

Re:Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Should Be Illegal by nopriorarrests on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @03:50PM (#18444755)

>while you can't "force" them to do something, there can be enough political pressure to effectively compel them to do something.

>any city that passed on this opportunity would have to describe to their constituents

So, democracy in action? Constituency wants something, and politicans have to obey? Or do you prefer politicans to decide by themselves and not having to explain their decisions back to their constinuents?

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Re:Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Should Be Illegal by smacktoward on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @06:03PM (#18445735)

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

-- H.L. Mencken

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Re:Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Should Be Illegal by lmpostor on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @04:34PM (#18445126)

So the point is that, being a democracy and subject to societal pressures, you can't assign that value to zero as that is unreasonable.

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