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Machine language isn’t that hard. A MS systems engineer can be certified in less than 9 months and the entry-level basics can be learned as easily as programming Powerpoint or Excel - which just about every receptionist in America can do. Besides the 10 support people behind every coder, tech companies generally pay their employees’ cost for successful completion of coursework, including degrees (another silent boost to that $12/hr). Not going to get that from mom and pop.

Speaking of mom and pop - Amazon is about 70 percent ‘mom and pop’ retailers. Same as ebay. Same as all the shopping channels. Even WalMart and Sears have ‘associate partners’.

But back to the ‘low wage’ argument you posed - these were white-collar jobs, as opposed to the low-wage jobs over in Staten Island at the Amazon Fulfillment Center that nobody seems to be complaining about.

Now, if NY’ers, where btw, over 1M illegals live, want to rely on the banking industry the progressives are attacking, and the real estate industry the progressives are attacking, and the stock market that the progressives are attacking, to support their dying city, have at it. In the meantime, Tennessee is delighted:

“Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had touted the benefits of Amazon’s HQ2, which included a pledge from the tech giant to create 25,000 jobs, paying an average of $150,000 per year in exchange for a slew of city and state tax breaks and subsidies worth up to $3 billion.
In addition to the 25,000 jobs, Amazon would’ve brought $2.5 billion in Amazon investment and eventually 8 million square feet of office space to Long Island City as part of its investment announced last November. The Seattle-based company said it would have generated “incremental tax revenue of more than $10 billion over the next 20 years as a result of Amazon

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/amazon-pulls-out-of-plan-to-build-new-york-city-headquarters’s investment and job creation.”