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Originally Posted by BelleZora
The city of Seattle, Amazon's home, has no such complaints about Amazon. In fact, Amazon reportedly asked Seattle for none of the traditional tax breaks that corporations routinely get from cities as a condition of locating there.
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That's not true in my area. And as for your observation on pay, then why don't I ever see Amazon up there with the other tech companies on
long lists of best places to work?
However, you would be correct to point out that many other companies want corporate welfare for all their locations, whereas Amazon exempts its home town. So plus there for Amazon.
Also a plus is that Amazon money, directly or through the Bezos family, goes to Seattle's first rate Fred Hutchinson Center Center, and to the promising Hutchinson-related biotech startup, Juno Theraputics, that may one day make life better for almost everyone. And according to
The Everything Store, Amazon's CEO is a good father and husband.
But I don't see this thread as a matter of adding up pluses and minuses to see who is heaven-bound. It's about what's good for literature (defined broadly enough to include serious non-fiction). As least, that's how I'm playing it.