I started to agree with you, but the reason Amazon in particular pays pretty good and throws stock grants at workers is because theyre competing with Google and Facebook and Apple and Adobe's engineering hubs as well as Microsoft over in Redmond. Starbucks and Nordstrom and Expedia are also all headquartered in Seattle, you do anything with computers and your not an idiot you can get a 6fig job right out of college. So in another case a company would be all "great we'll pay less in salary and pay less in tax" I think we're just going to all tech companies or any companies who survive on apps or online stores these days like even Nordstrom and Seattle are going to have to leave Seattle and encourage their highly paid employees to leave Seattle too.
The obvious choices are Bellevue and Redmond, but I wonder if south puget sound is going to see growth now - Federal Way, Tukwila, Renton, Auburn, Maple Valley and along I5 all the way down to Tacoma. Lots and lots of housing being built in Maple Valley and Covington, all new single family style housing developments, and Tacoma is growing in its own right.
THis is the truth. Sawant and Gonzalez don't even seem to consider the idea that someone might not agree with them, and if do disagree then youre someone to be defeated in a war. Just look at her
own fucking victory speech, here are some quotes
- This victory was hard fought and it was hard won.
- We are winning because of the determination of workers and socialists to smash all obstacles and find a path to victory.
- We hope that once again we can inspire working people and youth nationally and globally – in this crucial fight against the billionaire class which is attempting to force working people to pay for the current crisis of capitalism with massive budget cuts. Our rallying cry nationally must be NO to austerity! Tax big business, not working people! The Amazon Tax shows working people do not need to only play defense, we can also go on the offensive and win big.
Everything is smashing and defeating and crucial fights and rallying and going on the offensive and violence with her. Just look at way she ends her speech, its guillotine time for Bezos as far as she thinks:
I have a message for Jeff Bezos and his class.
If you attempt again to overturn the Amazon Tax, working people will go all out in the thousands to defeat you.
And we will not stop there.
Because you see, we are fighting for far more than this tax, we are preparing the ground for a different kind of society.
And if you, Jeff Bezos, want to drive that process forward by lashing out against us in our modest demands, then so be it.
Because we are coming for you and your rotten system.
We are coming to dismantle this deeply oppressive, racist, sexist, violent, utterly bankrupt system of capitalism, this police state.
We cannot and will not stop until we overthrow it and replace it with a world based instead on solidarity, genuine democracy, and equality – a socialist world.
Repeat to really drive it home:
"we are preparing the ground for a different kind of society."
"We cannot and will not stop until we overthrow it and replace it with a world based instead on solidarity, genuine democracy, and equality – a socialist world."
