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Is the Amazon-Led Economic Boom Wrecking Seattle?

Posted by timothy on from the can't-egg-a-house-without-breaking-some-eggs dept.

reifman writes: Seattleites are struggling with massive traffic, rising housing costs and declining diversity. Amazon's building and acquiring enough office space to triple its local headcount by 2020. Facebook, Google and many other tech companies are now expanding here as well — it's the San Franciscoization of Seattle. Downtown is filled with 75 cranes — some blocks look like mining towns. Amazon's hired so many white males that King County is now the whitest in the nation and hate crimes against gays have shot up in a formerly LGBTQ neighborhood. Politicians can't agree on reforming impact fees and taxes to address these issues." An interesting piece of recent advice from a long time Amazonian to the company's interns: avoid full-time employment there.

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  1. Re:The Struggle by ganjadude · · Score: 3, Interesting

    i dont argue that. but sometimes when a non gay person attacks a non gay person, its not because he is gay, yet its still listed as a hate crime. so we dont know the real numbers but i digress. look at the actual numbers not just the "doubled" part and you will see its still a rounding error. its not a "thing"

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  2. Re:The Struggle by ProfBooty · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Honkeys aren't homogeneous. Anyone who thinks so hasn't thought much about it at all.

    Whites are diverse in religion. Some follow no religion at all.

    Whites are diverse in country of origin, further there are a number of "white" regional cultures in the USA..

    White Euro-Americans are diverse in ethnicity. Some of these ethnic categories are Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Gallic, Iberian, Italic, Greek, Germanic, Basque, Scandinavian, Hispanic, and Slavic.

    White Americans are diverse in how long they or their families have lived in North America. Some families have been here for hundreds of years, but at least a third of all white American families have a grandparent who immigrated here from Europe.

    White Euro-Americans are diverse in wealth. Over half of all the people in the United States who live below the poverty line are white Americans.

    Whites have a wide variety of facial features and colours.

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