Amazon teased their "second headquarters" scheme in such a way as to elicit fealty from desperate localities all over the country and demonstrate corporate dominance, only to choose NYC + Northern Virginia, the centers of political and financial power. Incredibly sinister.
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they got reams of secret economic analysis data from all the cities in the bids that will give them an asymmetrical advantage in business planning (As a few other people keenly noticed). No more hidden data for Amazon release it all
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spooky detached HEAD state Retweeted Stacy Mitchell
This thread broke the subject of Amazon getting privileged economic data thru their Potemkin bidding honeypot (data the govts have been fighting to keep secret in general)https://twitter.com/stacyfmitchell/status/1059827244607201280?s=19 …
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