https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/03/andrew-cuomo-to-amazon-jeff-bezos-baby-come-back
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NY Gov. Cuomo, NYC Mayor DiBlasio run a full page ad in the New York Times begging Amazon to come back to Long Island City
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/03/andrew-cuomo-to-amazon-jeff-bezos-baby-come-back
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Alexa, play "Baby Come Back" by Hall & Oates.
Yup. Sad times we live in. Basically bowing down to our corporate overlords.
Pathetic. As a former LIC resident, while I can understand the appeal of theoretical jobs being brought to the community, we also all know how Amazon treats its employees.
Spend that money on improving living conditions in the area rather than on bringing a company as evil and hostile as Amazon to the city.
Spend that money on improving living conditions in the area rather than on bringing a company as evil and hostile as Amazon to the city.
feels great seeing your state governer and city mayor getting on their knees and grovelling to a billionaire.
Amazon was stopped by activists and people who protest Amazon's labor conditions. Cuomo and DeBlasio always wanted them in.
Especially when they went behind everyone's backs to get the deal done in the first place.
If they enforce a high minimum wage, benefits, and work-life balance for all those new jobs then sure. If it's like all the stories that come out of amazon workplaces, then good riddance.
The 25000 jobs are almost all professional jobs, and Amazon treats its professional workers pretty well.
Amazon also just canceled a huge office lease in Seattle and I won't be surprised if there is political and economic fallout from that as well. They know they need your city less than your city needs them.
They've always had not wanting to be the one to spend money to fix the subways in common and there's even more overlap of opinion here.
Don't forget the fact that it will likely lead to huge rent and home price increases in the area.
Having a vociferous anti-Amazon contingent of the population is poor for New York's standing, but groveling in public, that certain'y won't be.
Fucking christ, I was largely on the fence about this whole thing, but how is this not just being publicly pitiful in this day and age?
Fucking christ, I was largely on the fence about this whole thing, but how is this not just being publicly pitiful in this day and age?
Fuck these two... Selling out your city/state for a few bucks. Disgusting
Horrbily sad what's happening to this world. Cities are becoming and have become nothing but playgrounds for the rich and the underprivileged can wallow in poverty somewhere else. It's every bad cyberpunk cliche made reality.
Horrbily sad what's happening to this world. Cities are becoming and have become nothing but playgrounds for the rich and the underprivileged can wallow in poverty somewhere else. It's every bad cyberpunk cliche made reality.
Yeah. It wasn't like they were building a warehouse. It's a corporate HQ.
Theoretically, I'm really not opposed to a HQ here, but fucking involve your god damn constituents. Rollout a plan to keep housing affordable and maintain infrastructure *cough*MTA*cough*.
Sure. And would Amazon be hiring people from the local community to fill those jobs or would they be flooding it with rich white collar folks from New Jersey and Long Island?
I think the fact that it's mostly white New Yonkers who don't even live in the area that are against Amazon is the most telling. A lot of people are struggling in NY and in a long run it could potentially help Queens. I get that economic incentives irritate people. But in the long those are relatively insignificant... Definitely much cheaper than for the government to try to pay for the area redevelopment themselves...
Begging like he is fucking royalty. Fuck that, I think NY is dem enough to primary these two idiots.
In most Amazon campuses, the offices are mixed such that the majority of people are local(or graduated from a college recently in the area) but there will be a fair amount of people brought in from outside the area.
It's more likely they're bringing existing employees from elsewhere to HQ2 instead of just hiring new people locally.