Go Away Amazon
In the middle of a self-declared housing emergency, the San Francisco Bay Area Council has respectfully submitted this bid inviting Amazon to build HQ2 here.
NOoOOoooooOOOOOO!! Why would you do that??
We already have Google, Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Uber, Lyft, Tesla, Twitter, and about 99% of the Russell 2000. Are we trying to make the rest of the country resent us more than they already do? Because I don’t think that’s possible.
Amazon promises to create 50,000 new jobs. We don’t need more jobs! Our unemployment rate is so low, it’s negative. Like, people are commuting from three hours away just to work here. Heck, our unemployment rate is so low, even homeless people have full-time jobs.
(Or maybe our housing situation is so messed up that even full-time workers can’t afford the rent here.)
Here’s an artist’s rendering of the proposed site of HQ2:
The conceptual rendering looks lovely from afar, but if you zoom in to the street level, you might see something like this:
Right. San Francisco’s suggested location for HQ2 is Hunter’s Point, home of the largest homeless population in the city. Maybe Mayor Lee hopes that Amazon will pave right over them?...MORE
