Posted on 02/16/2019 4:34:20 PM PST by Sub-Driver
If I was the CEO of a company in almost any industry outside of banking/financial services, I'd consider it a serious breach of my fiduciary duty to even consider locating a headquarters office in NYC.
In other words, after one good taste of what dealing with the various factions of hardline, radical Communists - ethnics, homos, unionists, and so on - would be like, they fled screaming.
Income and/or wealth gap is almost on par with “climate change” in terms of hoaxes.
You have $100
I have $1000
Gap of $900
Next year you increase 10 fold: $1000. I double my money: $2000
We’re both happy but the “gap” has INCREASED to $1000.
Next year you lose and are down to $90
I lose and am down to $100
We’re both devastated, but GLORY HALLELUJAH, the “gap” is now only $10. SUCCESS!!!! Idiots.
They also probably didn’t want to be your show pony. They are there to do business, not politicking.
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It’s actually a crying shame. Look at all the marvelous opportunities for Amazon to do virtue signaling. / sarc
Maybe Bezos thought he needed to at least give NYC a chance, knowing that something would blow up.
And it did. Amazon said “yes” and NYC said “no”. So Amazon has the best of both worlds. It escapes a terrible city to do business in and it has an excuse why they were forced to so somewhere else.
Bezos is a sly one. Don’t put it past the guy.
Cuomo. probably thought that was an offer Bezos could not refuse.
“I think one of the reasons for cancelation is Amazon had time to see the gene pool from which their employees would emerge. Not enough IQ points to get the jobs done at the level they needed.”
One of the problems is certainly related to that - and both sides recognized it: Amazon would’ve been shipping local residents out in cattle cars to make way for the literate, competent workforce they needed. The cattle car passengers understood this as well; they were going to be forced out of their neighborhood so more qualified people could come in and work there.
This is also an issue as Newark NJ desperately searches for sugar daddies; their own work force is practically non-existent, and nobody will re-locate to Newark as long as the current residents run wild.
I sure wouldn’t put it past him. I actually thought he wanted to spend more time in NYC and this would give him a good excuse to be at the ‘other headquarters’. Though VA is just as good if not better considering he owns the WashPost.
It is amazing how quickly this whole story has been scrubbed from NYC news; the enemedia must have gotten the word that average people here are p!ssed off. This whole topic (Amazon moving to Long Island City) has dominated the news here for months, yet after reporting the deal had fallen through on Thursday evening, and showing negative reactions from many people, it is now gone - as though it was all a bad dream. It didn’t help that many opponents were also downcast; they apparently thought Amazon would “get right”, pay up, and just pump billions more into the socialist black hole. The icing on the cake was probably all of the local business owners complaining; they’ve probably been watching their fortunes decline in that deteriorating sh!thole for years and saw a chance to get out without losing their shirts.
Maybe it is Trump’s SALT repeal that made Amazon’s millionaires balk at not being able to write off NY’s massive taxes.
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