The situation on 3rd Ave is bad, but Amazon also wants to show the city council that raising taxes on them would result in them loosing an employer, not getting any revenue.
And I'm further speculating that a lot of this sentiment in Seattle, SF and NYC is driven by the influx of affluent office workers who moved in during the lowest ebb of crime in the 2010s and are getting a rude awakening of what city life is like. Anyone who sees this as some sort of end times doesn't remember the 90s.
Not saying you're wrong but there is an issue here as well.
Maybe Amazon can deal with people fighting against capitalism and the very idea of ownership, but levying taxes to fund a nogo zone (where people get shot), is not a project that Amazon wants to fund?