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Originally Posted by vandelay
So much nonsense being peddled here. Is there a mod here? Making a freshman congressman the bogeyman who singlehandedly torpedoed the Amazon deal is a gross oversimplification and shows how susceptible people are to right wing and corporate media programming.
The Amazon deal was lambasted from all sides and all levels. The biggest company in the world, headed by the richest man needed $3B in incentives to go to NYC, the richest city in the world? Disney just spent $650M for a new campus, Google just invested $1B for a new campus in NYC. All without pursuing incentives.
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Nothing in this post is accurate. Entirely fabricated nonsense.
The reality is that AOC, who is extremely influential in local politics, torpedoed 40k new high-paying jobs because she's trying to make a name for herself nationally. And she succeeded, brilliantly. The reality is that NYC is poorer for her efforts. Anyone who calls themselves progressive should be upset at her demagoguery. It's probably the worst economic development news in modern NYC history, and at the same time we have an openly hostile President and Congress, who would like nothing better than to sink urban America.
The vast majority of New Yorkers, including liberal New Yorkers, supported this economic development, but stupid Trumpian populist tripe like "billionaires will be flying into Queens in helicopters while the poor sleep in the streets" muddied the waters enough that Bezos got cold feet, not wanting to deal with the political cluster---k around a wildly influential populist.
It may be that NY gets the jobs anyways. Maybe. But we don't know. What we know is that they won't be coming to Queens, where, in conjunction with Cornell Tech, there would have been a powerful new innovation ecosystem.