Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus

Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by Justsignedup on Thursday February 14, 2019 @01:19PM (#19164326)

Kentucky was a perfect example of this. They gave the best corporate welfare money can buy. And everyone left. There were no decent roads, schools, police. So there were no decent workers. The companies were basically given the best deal in a place with no workers.

If anything the workers left even more because there was even less attractiveness to be there.

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by taurath on Thursday February 14, 2019 @01:59PM (#19164742)

Its really hard to make a thoughtful reply to a thread like this without seeming like its just ivory tower dumping on red states. My feeling is that they've set up a basically every person for himself sort of society with (usually multinational or national) businesses as the primary benefactor rather than people.

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by bunderbunder on Thursday February 14, 2019 @02:30PM (#19165087)

> ivory tower dumping on red states

If dumping on ostensible conservatives for wantonly doling out government largesse is wrong, I don't want to be right.

That said, FWIW, the greater context here is an article about New York getting in on the game, too.

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by rcpt on Thursday February 14, 2019 @02:07PM (#19164830)

Puerto Rico to

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