‘Another Reason Local Is Better’
2nd April 2012
Read it. And try not to puke.
Smoking gun: ‘The overriding thing that struck me about this article is here is a company that brought in over 45 billion dollars (yes, that’s billion with a B last year) and has given next to nothing in its home base where it employs more than 9,000 people.’
Note the blind spot: It employs 9,000 people, and yet that is ‘next to nothing’. What matters is not how many jobs a company provides for a community, how much it enriches their lives (and those of their customers around the fucking world), but what it ‘gives’ to the locality in which it is headquartered.
Apparently, in the world of Josie Leavitt, the purpose of a company isn’t to conduct a profitable business, employing people, making its customers’ lives better by providing goods and services, and giving its investors a return on their money; no, the purpose of a business is to serve as a fountain of cash to any do-gooder with a hand out (and there are always plenty of them) who passes by.
Amazon needs to move its headquarters from this behavioral sink on the Left Coast to someplace like Dallas, where its generous contributions to the community will be appreciated rather than sneered at.
April 4th, 2012 at 13:15
The author should provide cheese & crackers to go with that whine! Pay no attention to how those 9,000 people would have to look for jobs somewhere else without Amazon. And as for the whine about the Kindle, when “poor” people can no longer afford the latest iPhone, then I’ll worry about their access to electricity and a stable Internet connection.