Ahhh America, where you don't give 2 shits about potentially killing people so long as you don't have to pay for it.
What a joke.
> Knowing that a consultant in Washington refers to Amazon, Facebook and Google as “Standard Commerce, Standard Social and Standard Data” should make you shudder. I like it.
Not really, they are starting to move into the phase of trying to clean up their images and establish better legacies. Controlling the media is just efficient.
the last thing the US needs is to have anything move further to the right.
> bunch of fairly neutral > Seattle subreddits Seattle subreddits are extremely right-wing/libertarian and pro-business. They aren't neutral. They spread massive lies. > Passed with a 9-0 vote, repealed extremely…
And will you say good riddance when he's extracting billions in tax breaks from the state in a few years? It was about 2% of a minimum wage salary per employee. I need more evidence that's unaffordable to a business…
I think Bezos probably realized when he paid a bunch of money and shut down construction of Amazon buildings in order to strongarm the Seattle government into killing a tax that was specifically to go towards reducing…
The tech companies are some of the biggest lobbyists around. Large retail, I would guess, are as well. They also put in massive amounts of effort to avoid unionization.
No, because the government subsidizing it reduces the amount people are able to work for. If it's a choice between starving being worked extremely hard by Amazon vs just starving, why would people be choosing the former?
Ahhh America, where you don't give 2 shits about potentially killing people so long as you don't have to pay for it.
What a joke.
> Knowing that a consultant in Washington refers to Amazon, Facebook and Google as “Standard Commerce, Standard Social and Standard Data” should make you shudder. I like it.
Not really, they are starting to move into the phase of trying to clean up their images and establish better legacies. Controlling the media is just efficient.
the last thing the US needs is to have anything move further to the right.
> bunch of fairly neutral > Seattle subreddits Seattle subreddits are extremely right-wing/libertarian and pro-business. They aren't neutral. They spread massive lies. > Passed with a 9-0 vote, repealed extremely…
And will you say good riddance when he's extracting billions in tax breaks from the state in a few years? It was about 2% of a minimum wage salary per employee. I need more evidence that's unaffordable to a business…
I think Bezos probably realized when he paid a bunch of money and shut down construction of Amazon buildings in order to strongarm the Seattle government into killing a tax that was specifically to go towards reducing…
The tech companies are some of the biggest lobbyists around. Large retail, I would guess, are as well. They also put in massive amounts of effort to avoid unionization.
No, because the government subsidizing it reduces the amount people are able to work for. If it's a choice between starving being worked extremely hard by Amazon vs just starving, why would people be choosing the former?