> True leadership would have been to have these protests when the incentives package was put together,

Which is hard to do, since Amazon convinced most city leaders across the country to keep the majority of the incentives secret, and therefore no one could know how bad it was until it was already too late.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/technology/amazon-headqua...

There's a strong argument here that the protesters were the only people involved in this whole ordeal that actually did their job properly.