OT*-Who do you think should get the Amazon headquarters?

[jlwdm]

Originally Posted by bikinchris

It seems that 25,000 people sleeping in tents to be able to eat because they work at Amazon for one of the richest men in history didn't sound very enticing to New York.

New York is expensive but it is hard to argue an average salary of $150k means everyone will be living in tents.

Jeff

[kppolich]

Is it really a headquarters if there is more than 1?

Why does Amazon need another office building? Solely for the tax incentives or do they really have that many people coming into work? For a cloud based computing company (AWS) they should be able to work remote or not all at one site.

Large warehouses, let the robots loose and let's get this conversation over with.

[Tony T]

Originally Posted by bikinchris

It seems that 25,000 people sleeping in tents to be able to eat because they work at Amazon for one of the richest men in history didn't sound very enticing to New York.

Is Queens the "new Brooklyn"?
When did rents in Queens get so high?
(…is the solution to high rents to discourage new business?)

[schwa86]

Originally Posted by Tony T

We have regulated capitalism.
Multibillion dollar handouts by (local) governments help bring jobs.
If this were illegal, then areas in decline would have no method of enticing businesses to take risks. The question regarding NY is why the Governor and Mayor decided it was necessary to give "handouts" for an area that may not need 25,000 new jobs (not saying it wasn't)

I really disagree with this. Multi billion dollar handouts never bring a sufficient number of jobs to make the multi billion dollar handout affordable in the long term. The multi billion dollars is much better spent investing in public and higher education, and public infrastructure, Etc., such that companies want to locate there regardless of the handout. See NC triangle, Boston, TX, etc. The current FoxConn debacle in WI is a really good example.