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Rich Stein (he/him)@anildash Remind me, again, how many public dollars did cities and states around the US throw at #Amazon in the form of tax breaks, public subsidies and other giveaways — a.k.a. economic #incentives (😂 ) — to win #HQ2 (money that could probably... possibly... definitely have been spent in better fashion, BTW, to boost #equity and economic development)?
Chris BroomeMaybe it’s for the best that #Baltimore lost out on #HQ2… The last thing we need is another Port Covington… err I mean Baltimore Peninsula. With the tax breaks Hogan was offering to Amazon all of us in the state of #Maryland would have effectively become Jeff Bezos’ serfs in perpetuity. Thanks, #Virginia for bending over backwards to make this happen.
From: @maxkennerly
https://mstdn.social/@maxkennerly/109960574092576038
Max Kennerly (@[email protected])
The risk of an economic downturn is, in fact, precisely one of the reasons it's a bad idea to throw billions at a big corporation for some vague, non-binding promises of job creation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-03/amazon-hq2-pauses-construction-amid-layoffs-remote-work#xj4y7vzkg
@itnewsbot Remind me, again, how many public dollars did cities and states around the US throw at #Amazon in the form of tax breaks, public subsidies and other giveaways — a.k.a. economic #incentives — to win #HQ2 (money that could probably have been spent in better fashion, BTW, to boost #equity and economic development)?
xRVAx 
Huge news for #Virginia... Funny that #WaPo (owned by #Bezos ) doesn't have any news about this yet... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-03/amazon-hq2-pauses-construction-amid-layoffs-remote-work#xj4y7vzkg #amazon #hq2
Amazon Pauses Construction on Second Headquarters in Virginia as It Cuts Jobs
Amazon.com Inc. is pausing construction on its sprawling second headquarters near Washington, a decision that coincides with the company’s deepest ever job cuts and a reassessment of office needs to account for remote work.
[dɔminik]#HQ2: An interview with #RWDSU’s Camille Rivera, on the labor and community organizing behind the defeat of the #Amazon HQ2 deal in #Queens
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-podcast-170-an-amazon-autopsy-with-camille-rivera #NYC #LongIslandCity #unions
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-podcast-170-an-amazon-autopsy-with-camille-rivera #NYC #LongIslandCity #unions
Mike JonesThis is interesting in light of the HQ2/NYC saga: Amazon threatened not to move into Ranier Square if Seattle passed a business tax intended to help build low-income housing and the homeless.
The city backed down. Now Amazon is...not moving in to Ranier Square.
boingboing.net/2019/02/28/pre…
Andrew HintonAre we still telling ourselves HQ2 was anything but con?
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RT @[email protected]
#Atlanta was among the cities in the running for #Amazon #HQ2. One potential factor in the decision – as David Pendered wrote in February – was the city’s relative scarcity of college-educated #millennials
https://buff.ly/2EIUUVO
https://twitter.com/SaportaReport/status/1078781644004302854
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RT @[email protected]
#Atlanta was among the cities in the running for #Amazon #HQ2. One potential factor in the decision – as David Pendered wrote in February – was the city’s relative scarcity of college-educated #millennials
https://buff.ly/2EIUUVO
https://twitter.com/SaportaReport/status/1078781644004302854
Solidarity [Mirrored]“This tidy arrangement has many pitfalls. An obvious one is what happens if a neighborhood that could hardly be called neglected gets declared one of these opportunity zones...” #AmazonDeal #HQ2 #amazonhq2
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/23/evremonde-in-new-york-the-amazon-deal/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/23/evremonde-in-new-york-the-amazon-deal/
kavbojka"Amazon is creating the problems it purports to solve. So why don’t we solve the problem, and take it over?" - The Case for Nationalizing Amazon https://theoutline.com/post/6587/nationalize-amazon-make-bezos-our-bitch
#amazon #hq2 #latestagecapitalism #nationalization
#amazon #hq2 #latestagecapitalism #nationalization