Regardless of whether you like Amazon or not, these stupid leftist policies are going to cost the residents of their cities a lot in lost jobs and opportunities. Apple was going to build a billion-dollar facility in some god-forsaken county in Ireland, to the great joy of the local residents who hoped to work there, and a pair of self-proclaimed “environmental preservationists” kept the project in court for so many years that last week Apple just gave up and withdrew its plans. I guess what they want to preserve is rural Ireland’s poverty...
What’s happened in the bay area is that tech companies tend to import talent from elsewhere and all local residents get are good property values (if they own) or evicted due to rising rent (if they don’t own). Even though California is posting a net loss of americans they are adding people because tech-oriented migrants are coming in in greater numbers.
all of this has squeezed out the middle class in favor of a global elite and central american underclass.