Hate Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google? Get in Line
Amazon needs tax breaks and incentives about as much as you need to steal a quarter from your grandmother.
All of the sudden our tech giants find themselves in a PR pickle: They are posting record earnings and seem unstoppable in business, but they desperately need to convince the public they’re not scarier than a pack of velociraptors on meth.
Even people you’d expect to be all rah-rah about Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft—five of the most valuable companies on Earth—are turning cold. Roger McNamee, a big early investor in Facebook, recently Techonomy, “Facebook has the largest margins of any company of similar size in the American economy. They’re functioning like a drug company without doing clinical trials.” Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence
