And if Amazon is trying to set up a distribution center in your state, county, or town: fight it.

At the very least insist on language that prohibits any sort of corporate welfare. No tax breaks, no free infrastructure.

Bezos is the richest man in the world; he can afford to run a new sewer or water main to his big fancy warehouses, instead of making a county's worth of low-income blue-collar folks pay for it. He can afford to pay property tax. Etc

Same for Walmart.

Same for every fucking corporation.

Stop giving corporations breaks to "bring jobs" to your town. Soon as that corporation finds a better deal somewhere else, or the workers get too 'uppity', they'll shop around and move to a town more desperate than yours.

The writers of South Park commented on this (and which, more broadly, was inspired by a Ray Bradbury novel): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Wall-Mart_This_Way_C...

If the next town over does not follow this strategy, you will quickly find yourself in a diminished community with less public services and available jobs.

If we insist on giving up our principles because someone else may also give up their principles, then we’re damned to a race to the bottom that neither of us will ever escape.

"better things aren't possible" isn't the cutting rebuttal people think it is.

If has been shown that opening an amazon warehouse in a location actually destroys more job than it creates.

If you have a senator or representative this would be a great time to ask what the fuck is the NLRB doing when there's this much anti union activity going on?

And if they don't respond some more direct action might be necessary.

> If you have a senator or representative

Most of us don't, but I've been looking at the lobbying numbers and they don't seem that expensive.

I think with crowd funding and smart targeting of the money it might not be that difficult to buy change.

Are you suggesting we should crowd fund to get the money for politicians elected by the people to actually for the people?

The Onion "suggested" this 12 years ago.

https://www.theonion.com/american-people-hire-high-powered-l...

Unfortunately that's how most of our capitalist democracies work.

I think I'll watch something on it tonight after making a purchase.