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A Visual Walk Through Amazon's Impact On One Seattle Neighborhood

Posted by Soulskill on from the aside-from-the-all-the-packages-sitting-at-people's-doors dept.

reifman writes: If you live in Seattle, it's easy to see Amazon.com's impact on downtown construction and growth but not everyone sees what's happening in neighborhoods like formerly sleepy Ballard. One by one, traditional Seattle homes are being razed and replaced by 3 1/2 story behemoths without regard for aesthetics of any kind. The new townhomes offer 12 foot wide living spaces for Amazon's brogrammer class. Take a walk with me down my friend's street to see what it's like to live amongst the returns of e-commerce success. Ballard is also home of the late octogenarian Edith Macefield, who refused to sell her house to developers as construction went up around her.

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  1. How do these articles get published? by Magnus+Pym · · Score: 1, Troll

    This guy comes across as an archetypical `mangina', bleating and fawning over "women's causes" in the desperate hope that one of them would give him a pity fuck. Why on earth are we giving this bilge coverage on Slashdot?

    I don't even know where to begin addressing the pseudo-feminist assertions and hypocrisies in this article:

    1. I've already got mine, Jack, from Microsoft of all places. I've retired from tech life and am now looking for a way to remain relevant to the world.

    2. Amazon's offices are sparsely furnished. Patriarchy!!!!

    3. The new buildings are mostly occupied by men! Oh the humanity!!

    4. Amazon's workforce is 75% men! There are so many women with Women's studies degrees who can do as good a job of developing cloud infrastructure if it wasn't for all the discrimination. (Ladies, I am a really nice guy, so if you want someone who is not like these younger competitors...)

    5. Seattle is White! And getting whiter! Of course, the throngs of Indians who occupy the Amazon & MSFT offices are invisible to me, they are just cyber-coolies after all.

    6. The poor ladies of Seattle can't find a date because the men that Amazon hires are of such low quality!!! (Refer to my comment earlier about my availability to pick up the slack...)