Amazon propaganda. Google the working conditions at Amazon and the AVERAGE salary and # of people requiring state/fed aid https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniedenning/2018/08/12/how-jeff-bezos-hires-great-people/amp/
How Jeff Bezos Hires Great People

Jeff Bezos attributes much of Amazon's success to hiring the best people. But how has Amazon managed to maintain a high standard for hiring while rapidly expanding over the last 20 years?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniedenning/2018/08/12/how-jeff-bezos-hires-great-people/amp/
Folks, if you're going to come at the Amazon dude (thats me) you best not miss. https://theintercept.com/2018/04/19/amazon-snap-subsidies-warehousing-wages/
Amazon Gets Tax Breaks While Its Employees Rely on Food Stamps, New Data Shows

In Arizona, new data suggests that one in three of the company’s own employees depend on SNAP to put food on the table.

https://theintercept.com/2018/04/19/amazon-snap-subsidies-warehousing-wages/
🚨 Amazon always promises big paying jobs, and then always winds up just staffing mostly very low wage jobs - https://www.wral.com/job-incentives-often-fail/14052627/
Despite big job promises, incentives often fail to deliver

Years after state leaders announce new jobs spurred by economic incentives, they often fail to materialize. A number of companies named in job announcements have since laid off workers, closed up...

https://www.wral.com/job-incentives-often-fail/14052627/
Amazon steals postal workers...from you. You pay them... to deliver for Amazon. Sweet https://medium.com/s/powertrip/confessions-of-a-u-s-postal-worker-we-deliver-amazon-packages-until-we-drop-dead-a6e96f125126
Confessions of a U.S. Postal Worker: “We deliver Amazon packages until we drop dead.”

How the Post Office’s deal with Amazon has made life hell for mail carriers

https://medium.com/s/powertrip/confessions-of-a-u-s-postal-worker-we-deliver-amazon-packages-until-we-drop-dead-a6e96f125126
Those cities competing for HQ2 - had to sign an NDA - it was all begind closed doors
"trust me, its a good deal"
nope.... https://wamu.org/story/18/01/30/amazon-insists-silence-twenty-hq2-finalists/
Amazon Insists On Silence From Twenty HQ2 Finalists | WAMU

The 20 finalists for HQ2 have been required to sign non-disclosure agreements which restrict how much they can say about the process moving forward.

https://wamu.org/story/18/01/30/amazon-insists-silence-twenty-hq2-finalists/
Amazon hates you, but they love China, is this why WaPo came out with an editorial saying we should let China spy in the US https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/02/14/how-amazons-wooing-of-chinese-sellers-is-hurting-american-innovation/#4fff6e371df2
How Amazon's Wooing Of Chinese Sellers Is Killing Small American Businesses

While Amazon makes a big public stance against counterfeiters, the reality is that brands continue being outcompeted by knock-offs of their own products in the marketplace -- which is putting many...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/02/14/how-amazons-wooing-of-chinese-sellers-is-hurting-american-innovation/#4fff6e371df2
India 🇮🇳 cracked down on Amazon. We can't? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-27/india-crackdown-on-amazon-walmart-seen-hurting-online-shoppers-jq6z381z
India’s Crackdown on Amazon and Walmart Likely Hurts Online Shoppers

India’s new rules for foreign e-commerce platforms may be designed to protect local companies from Amazon.com Inc. and Walmart Inc., but consumers are likely to suffer the collateral damage.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-27/india-crackdown-on-amazon-walmart-seen-hurting-online-shoppers-jq6z381z
And Italy is cracking down on Amazon. But we can't?
🇮🇹 https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-antitrust-scrutiny-italy-2019-4
Amazon is facing antitrust scrutiny in Italy

Italy's competition authority will start an investigation into whether Amazon improperly leverages its strong position in e-commerce and logistics.

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-antitrust-scrutiny-italy-2019-4
In 2007 liberal progressive democrats hated Walmart. It was big part of all their campaign. remember this... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/02/selling-wal-mart
Selling Wal-Mart

Can the company co-opt liberals?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/02/selling-wal-mart
Now Liberal progressives LOVE Amazon, a business that has a far greater blast radius...
"what Happened" https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/de-blasio-amazon-no-walmart
De Blasio: Amazon is no Walmart

Mayor says Walmart made efforts to undermine labor unions

https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/de-blasio-amazon-no-walmart
When the EU tried to crack down on the ILLEGAL tax schemes by Amazon...the tech lobbyists called up the Obama administration...and...poof! Jack Lew, at that time the Treasury Secretary intervened... https://thehill.com/policy/technology/374657-lobbying-groups-for-amazon-apple-and-google-push-treasury-to-speak-out
Big tech lobbying groups push Treasury to speak out on EU tax proposal

They argue that such policies are unfair and warned Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that they could “set a troubling precedent that could deeply harm the US and global business climate.”

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/374657-lobbying-groups-for-amazon-apple-and-google-push-treasury-to-speak-out
de Blasio, faux progressive defended Amazon...saying they are no Walmart.
He's right, they are not the same... Walmart pays federal taxes on its profits http://fortune.com/2019/02/14/amazon-doesnt-pay-federal-taxes-2019/
Amazon Will Pay a Whopping $0 in Federal Taxes on $11.2 Billion Profits

Amazon, which has a trillion dollar valuation, won't pay federal taxes for the second year in a row.

http://fortune.com/2019/02/14/amazon-doesnt-pay-federal-taxes-2019/
Walmart got the irony, the faux liberals (drumroll) lie... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/04/11/walmart-responds-to-amazons-challenge-over-pay.html
'How about paying your taxes?'—Walmart responds to Amazon's challenge over pay

Walmart responds to Bezos' challenge to other retailers to raise pay and add more benefits.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/04/11/walmart-responds-to-amazons-challenge-over-pay.html
Amazon pushed back, they enlisted the biggest mouths of the faux liberals. Amazon appropriated the language of the #Resistance "how dare Trump do this to Amazon! Dictator!" http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/03/trump-obsessed-with-amazon-wants-to-crush-washington-post.html?gtm=top
Trump ‘Obsessed’ With Amazon, Wants to Crush Washington Post

The president may not actually be a postal-shipping-rates wonk.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/03/trump-obsessed-with-amazon-wants-to-crush-washington-post.html?gtm=top
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