Your first impression was right. This story is the exception, not the rule.

“I hit stupid orange cones all the time, ON PURPOSE, because, like Elon, I realize they serve no useful purpose except to hold back a multitide ofimbeciles like you, sitting in your cars, slaves to one stupid little orange cone.”

Yeah, because we should all be driving giant electric armored paramilitary vehicles.

no, it wont. Its is an embarrassing design. Its awful.

Absolutely.

Does Elon’s boot taste better than a normal boot because he’s rich, or does it taste the same as all the other boots you’re prone to licking?

WHO DID THE TRAFFIC CONE VOTE FOR THIS IS BIAS NO COLLUSION NO WHISTLEBLOWER FAKE NEWS

lol “Anyone could’ve hit that”

I like how you tell us about all the “good reasons” why cities were fighting over Amazon, without providing a single one of those reasons.

According to Amazon’s own numbers, only 1500 permanent jobs are going to be created by this. The 25,000 figure was a bullshit number dreamed up by their PR department.

Cite just one major project in the past 5 years that has created all the jobs it originally claimed it would. In merica obviously.

Spare us your sanctimony. Those jobs wouldn’t come out of the local population, they would ship them in. And they still wouldn’t pay taxes ether state or federal. No one invites a dragon into town expecting prosperity. Only fools worship the wealthy.

Oh give us a fucking break, acting like Amazon pays a living wage, or contributes to the states that host it is a gross overestimation of a company with a long history of tax dodging influence peddling and greed.

Right I forgot that corporations always tell the truth! Or I could just do some basic thinking over how their 25,000 jobs.. would supposedly be created over 10 years.... “

I bet you think publicly funded sports stadiums are good for cities too.

The lack of comprehension of what it’s actually like to live by the commenter is outstanding. There’s more to life than money. You have totaled into your analysis a grand total of one thing: how it effects the economy.

I think the real lack of comprehension is on anyone who thinks a company that pays damn near zero in federal taxes needs further breaks and incentives. Especially a company that is known to under-cut, overwork, and underpay a swath of its actual employment base.

Projections for the first year of jobs created for HQ2 was just 700, that 25,000 was a made up number from Amazon.

That every previous jobs claim to get state or federal money I have seen has been overinflated and often includes temp jobs. The 25,000 jobs number likely included all the different construction jobs, cleaning crews and anyone involved in it for more than a minute while the new 1,500 jobs is likely the true permanent…

Jobs? I take it you’re not familiar with Amazon’s work conditions and their handling. It’s only a matter of time when the conditions people are enduring as workers is hand-waved away from the prospect of “bringing jobs”.