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posted by martyb on Monday February 18 2019, @02:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the What-else-could-you-do-with-$3-billion? dept.

"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


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  • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday February 18 2019, @07:01PM

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Monday February 18 2019, @07:01PM (#803092) Journal

    Is it any wonder you know the game is rigged when you, and every other mayor in America who stands to win out over your fellow cities in playing tax roulette, rigged the game? Nobody required y'all to start giving them concessions, but once the first of you did you condemned everyone else to start laying your bets down and spinning the wheel.

    Sounds like somebody is sore that they thought the wheel was set to land on 32 and the ball decided to take a final jump over to 0.

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