Originally Posted by
Julio3000
I think that’s one of the biggest sticky issues within the community about the the “X-thousand jobs” talking point.
The questions of “who benefits?” can be justly litigated regardless, and I’m not claiming to know the answer, but the fact is that Amazon has a limited number of places where they could site a huge white-collar facility. NYC is one obvious choice, and it’s a reasonable perspective, IMO, to consider the perturbations on the housing market, among other things, and decide that you’d rather see them paying full freight for all of the ancillary benefits of a NY location, rather than getting huge tax breaks and construction grants to build there.