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Originally Posted by cfrizz
I hate to break it to you, but EVERY corporation plays fast and loose with the rules, all will screw over who and what they can until they get caught. Then they proclaim their innocence, write out a big fat check, and lay low until the heat is off and go right back to it!
Your city/state govt. goes out of their way to offer big tax incentives to get those corps into their cities. Why? because they will provide JOBS, & tax revenue etc.
You can't have it both ways. This is simply life, and I doubt you can go anywhere in the world where it isn't the same.
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I hate to break it to you, but we didn't need the Amazon's jobs. Nor did we want them. And we DEFINITELY did NOT want to subsidize one of the richest corporations in the world. The local fast food joints' starting wages in our area are as much as what Amazon offers their employees and we don't have to subsidize them — nor do these employees suffer with bladder issues because of Amazon's bathroom break policies. As an employer Amazon is looked at as a pariah in this area by many of those who have worked (briefly) for them.
And maybe you weren't listening, but the "tax revenue" from Amazon is very limited (at least locally) for ten years. At which time Amazon, being the sleazy corporation they are, will probably pull up their stakes and move on to sucker another city. That's how these slime-balls operate. And the local Chamber of Commerce doesn't work for the local businesses, it works for the sleazy corporations.
As for going anywhere in the world and "finding it just the same," — sorry, but I doubt it. And, even it's true, it doesn't mean I'm not in the mood to just accept it. At least I'm going to try to do something about it, even if that "something" is nothing than complaining about it.
Again, I don't understand defending unethical behavior by huge corporations. It almost like some people admire them for their ruthlessness. I don't get it.