Because they are the people who live there, because they make their lives there, because having large percentages of their wealth stripped away by some leech doesn't make them worse or lesser people.
Why do we care about the needs of landlords? We should be catering to the people who actually live in an area.
It's not just not compassionate, it's a disgusting hatred of the lower class.
How is that disingenuous? Amazon is as aggressively anti-union as any company out there. This is exactly in line with the platform she was elected on and the things she is saying are exactly what the people in her district voted for.
The NLRB is as much a corporate tool as anything else. Collective bargaining happens through unions and actual collective action. Not by hoping regulators do enough to keep the company at bay.
Amazon doesn't give out jobs out of the goodness of their heart. Every person they employ they do so with the goal of making more than it costs to employ that person.
So why should they get so much as 1 cent to help with that?
It's an awful broken system and the politicians who enable it should be tossed out of office.
As a taxpayer I would prefer we didn't give any for profit business so much as a nickel.
Part of what's so ridiculous about all this is if you picked 2 places for Amazon to go then NYC and DC would be right near the top. They want government money, they want access to talent. Obvious choices. If neither city gave them a cent they would still end up there.
Got nothing to do with billion dollar giveaways to trillion dollar corporations. Amazon is just such a benevolent force that they deserve, and Jeff is a philanthropist now.
Got nothing to do with the corporate rule and oligarchy that controls America. That this is perhaps the most blatant example of the casual corruption that we accept, and to be fair it is just capitalism in action.
Got nothing to do with the absolute farce of a process. I'm sure that the biggest tech hub on the east coach and Washington DC put in the best bids. I'm extremely convinced of that.
It's all just a bunch of uptight people who don't want Amazon so close.
> We really need center of the aisle, common sense to be popular again in this country
Okay, so left of the democrats.
I'd be fine with that.
I don't think you know what intersectionality is.
Not giving law enforcement broad surveillance capabilities hardly seems like a position conservatives would oppose. As usual the ones who yell loudest about tyranny are also the ones who cheerfully fight for it.
Well now that's the real problem, they don't. They will face no real consequences for this. In fact they will probably fight hard to ensure they can keep making money, no matter the problems, right up until the day their own math says they need to flip the script.
> He added that he thought it was the government’s responsibility to help specify regulations around the technology.
That's true but it doesn't absolve them of responsibility. They are choosing their actions willingly, and with full knowledge of the potential consequences.
This sort of behavior is inexcusable. It's just wrong.
I was hoping this would be much a critique of the tendency of people to place too much faith in technology, to ignore the human element of solutions, and (among SV types especially) to prize their own goals above all else. To try and come up with purely technical solutions to the problems of society, but to do so by trying to create an environment which lets their own capitalist goals succeed while tossing scraps to the rest.
Cause even when it's well meaning, I still can't stand it. Their (our I suppose) own conviction they they are right fuels a randian like commitment to individualism. But then they want to appear woke and smart and so they start talking about basic income and how it's fine to have half the population just sort of subsisting. Or we'll fix democracy with smartphones and blockchain.
Also the tendency towards not just being temporarily embarrassed millionaires, but temporarily embarrassed tech billionaires.
No, they convinced fanboys that they turned it into a software problem. The reality is they are no different than any other auto manufacturer. Being in Silicon Valley doesn't change that.
An electric Camry would sell so much more than the model 3.
A republic which partially uses representative democracy, but mostly exists to ensure power to the landowning minority. Nowadays it's not about land of course, but it still exists to serve the wants of the powerful and only the powerful.
Even the one part that was supposed to be actually representative isn't.
Start over. No more senate. Elected president. Representative parliament.
Why do we care about the needs of landlords? We should be catering to the people who actually live in an area.
It's not just not compassionate, it's a disgusting hatred of the lower class.