Breaking: Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus (Taylor: insurance, tenants)
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Which is ironic because only 20% of New York jobs are unionized in the first place. We are not a union town.
Please step away from numbers...you obviously have no idea what numbers are used for. Might as well say that since only ten to twenty percent of your brain lights up on a PET Scan, you must be asleep....
Nothing critical happens without union say-so. That makes us a union town.
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Why was Amazon targeted by these idiots, i have no idea.
AOC is a little child screaming for attention. With NYC and NYS revenues declining, as also happening at the Fed levels, who will pay for her wall to wall speed rail so that we dont have to use the plane? They are not enough ultra rich people to fund her programs and if she raises taxes on $250k households the Dems will be kicked out in 2 seconds.
She's a hell of a lot more accomplished than you, you piece of excrement. Blah blah blah bad-mouthing the earnest and hard-working...either lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!
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By this time next year her sun will have set when people start having to be pragmatic and when politicians learn that most voters are center left or center right.
Politicians already know that most people are stupid.
Hence the same ol' same ol'...until Bernie Sanders and AOC and Illhan Omar and this new generation, God bless them!
But our politicians are owned by the unions. These are folks who have never worked in the private sector and hate the private sector as much as Fidel Castro did.
Better unions owning politicians than politicians owning unions like in fascist countries. Or why don't you just move to Russia or China??
What, Mr. Capitalist can't swim with the Uber-Capitalists and has to excrete on those trying to make a better world???
Of course. You have a good paying job so why should you insist that people who dont should be equipped so that they too could get this.
Who are these people getting the high-paying jobs?
Have you any idea what it takes to work at a FAANG/FAAMG company??
You think you're just gonna scream about racism to them??
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Subsidies for Amazon could have led the gov't to have Amazon open up pathways for non traditional sources for tech workers.
Why the hell would they do this???
Do you understand what it means to be a business?????
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They dont have such leverage with Google, so Google will poach and bring in transplants and the vast majority of NYC residents will remain excluded from anything other than aspiring to pack boxes at an Amazon facility.
What the hell are you even babbling about here??? What makes you think they would have any more leverage with Amazon?????
Yeah. They were supposed to open up a computer/job skills learning center at Queensbridge with hopes of future jobs to the participants if they do well. That's something to look forward to. I feel bad for them. As well as the businesses in the area that were expecting new customers and increased revenue as a result.
They have lots of these programs already. You're talking about people who have a hard time with high school, for crying out loud...yeah I guess I feel bad in a way too but honestly there're so many free resources online for learning computer programming or whatever but all these low-lifes are on Instagram or Facebook or World Star Hip Hop or whatever so that would be just throwing good money after bad....
And in fact NYC will soon find that out as it prices itself and regulates itself out of its world. When the Fortune 500 fled NYC the city suffered. The same will happen again.
To hell with the Fortune 500. Let them take their race to the bottom to Africa if they're so concerned about regulations!
Oh, what, no one wants to be in Africa except the Chinese who aren't wanted anywhere else...geez, how strange!!
This city has a huge problem and that is a huge part of its labor force lack the skills to compete with its emerging industries. By providing tax incentives Amazon could have been coerced to work with the city to provide ladders of opportunity by upgrading the various educational and skills development training which exists.
HOW OLD ARE YOU HONESTLY????
You have absolute NO CLUE WHATSOEVER about business!
The time to negotiate is at the beginning!! You think you're gonna worm your way in first and then try upping the ante at a later date???
Since you're black it may be that you're used to kid-gloves treatment in life but that's not how the non-black/hispanic world operates.
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They could have also coerced Amazon to integrate with the surrounding business ecosystem.
Yeah, sure, "coerce" Amazon....
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They cannot tell Google what to do because they dont provide any incentives and so Google employs the same bunch of folks, most transplants and the small businesses which surround its facilities now being forced to close.
WTF???
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But I recall that you consider most NYers to be "ghetto" so plans to better align them to the emerging job opportunities you dont think appropriate.
LOL...all anyone has to do is leave blacks/hispanics alone to their own devices, no need to actively try denying them anything!
The egg on their face, hopefully they build more eyesore luxury housing in place of 25k jobs. That will show Amazon and benefit the community
Sigh. Still parroting the Amazon sales brochure, I see....
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