Doing things better and cheaper is the reason why our standard of living keeps increasing.
I for one would love to live in a city that said "we need to do more with the money we currently have."
I'm trying to understand why when a company like Amazon decides to create jobs in a city, suddenly they are to blame for everything wrong (homelessness, high housing prices, etc). It's absurd.
And they're blamed because they are largely a cause of exacerbating those problems. It's not just a pure good for them to come. Like I said, they cause housing prices to skyrocket. That's on them, and the increased homelessness that would result would be on them, too.
Amazon doesn't control the zoning laws, the city does. If housing prices increase, it's the city's fault.
People act like Amazon is some all-powerful entity that can railroad an entity like a city council that has the power to change laws.
Amazon absolutely shares some blame with all of those. You cannot condemn one entity for not having "personal responsibility" and ignore the responsibility the other entities have in contributing to the situation.
Will you refuse to take the $100?