Why Amazon Chose New York and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

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No population genuinely worried about abuses of power would even countenance placing a single private company in control of securing the data of both the intelligence community and the armed services. Add putting a major media organ or two under the same umbrella and you're beginning to enter oligarchy territory.

Moving Amazon closer to America's political and financial capitals isn't just about creating a few jobs. It's also a symbolic move that speaks to the unsettling co-mingling of state and corporate power. We might wake up soon and wish we hadn't put so many eggs in one basket.