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"We know the game is rigged": NYC mayor slams Amazon HQ2 reversal
In a New York Times op-ed published Saturday evening, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio condemned Amazon for its decision to pull the plug on its HQ2 expansion in Queens, calling it a byproduct of massive economic power concentrated in the hands of few wealthy corporations.
As the mayor of the nation's largest city, a place that's both a progressive beacon and the very symbol of capitalism, I share the frustration about corporate America. So do many of my fellow mayors across the country. We know the game is rigged. But we still find ourselves fighting one another in the race to secure opportunity for our residents as corporations force us into all-against-all competitions.
Amazon's HQ2 bidding war exemplified that injustice.
Previously: Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @06:16AM
NYC didn't actually offer Amazon much at all. All that hand-waving about billions of benefits? Those things were already written into the law, Amazon would just have been able to avail themselves of that.
Amazon was ready to go, with broad support among the people of (especially) Queens, until the politicians got all huffy about it - and then they apparently shrugged and decided that they'd already dealt with that horseshit from Seattle, and didn't need it elsewhere.
What did Amazon do? What any rational company would do. They went where they were welcome. NYC's loss is Virginia's gain. And the good citizens of NYC have nobody but their politicians to blame.
Will they learn the lesson? Don't hold your breath, kids.