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First Bezo's buys a newspaper to leverage himself toward molding opinion and influencing of publicity whores and decision makers in government, now they want their HQ as close as possible to the DC power center to hire ex officials to game the economic system for them and grease the wheels of Amazon, Inc. New York City is part of DC as far as policy and influence goes, and for Amazon it is close enough.
We have been asleep for the last 40 years, as monopolies have suffocated the country. Amazon is only the most egregious in it's drive to make humans compete with robots, not to improve its humans, but to improve its robots. The other facet of the elitist jewel is "big data", selling advertising paths to our subconscious based on what we discuss in private in our correspondence and searches.
The rats in the maze have it better. They get a food pellet at the end. Welcome to your future.
The sad irony is that the very thing that drew Amazon to the D.C. area is the very thing that makes it too expensive for regular people to live here: The bloated, overbearing, overgenerous, overregulating federal leviathan.
The three wealthiest counties in America, and 7 of the top 12, are within commuting distance of the U.S. Capitol. One result is inflated housing prices across the region.
The D.C. area is so expensive because the federal government is too big and powerful. The $4 trillion budget of the federal government makes the Beltway a very profitable place to live and do business. In 2015, the D.C. area federal civilian payroll was $57 billion. Take a Commerce Department bureaucrat married to a civilian at the Pentagon, and if they’re both GS-14s, they can easily earn $250,000, and know that a cushy pension and taxpayer-provided healthcare await them in retirement.
But given how D.C. works, at least one of those two will truly monetize their public service, cashing out to become lobbyists and consultants. That consulting class is what mostly underlies the obscene wealth of the region.
And here lies the real crime. Big companies like Amazon feel the need to invest in former congressmen, Pentagon lifers, and ex-bureaucrats to lobby, finagle, massage, and navigate the sprawling and complex web of taxes, regulations, handouts, and mandates.
First Bezo's buys a newspaper to leverage himself toward molding opinion and influencing of publicity whores and decision makers in government, now they want their HQ as close as possible to the DC power center to hire ex officials to game the economic system for them and grease the wheels of Amazon, Inc. New York City is part of DC as far as policy and influence goes, and for Amazon it is close enough.
We have been asleep for the last 40 years, as monopolies have suffocated the country. Amazon is only the most egregious in it's drive to make humans compete with robots, not to improve its humans, but to improve its robots. The other facet of the elitist jewel is "big data", selling advertising paths to our subconscious based on what we discuss in private in our correspondence and searches.
The rats in the maze have it better. They get a food pellet at the end. Welcome to your future.
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