And here all these cities were whoring out for the corporate God to come and magically make their place all the better suddenly. And they all got nothing but more money pulled out of their pockets. sighs I wish U.S. cities didn't do this kind of wasteful spending.
Strangely, I don't even see this as unethical, from a business perspective. I probably should, but I don't. It just makes sense. Play the whole field. Like going to several car dealerships and getting quotes for similar cars.
It's certainly scummy but legal. The real unethical party is the local governments and politicians who give money to the private company. Crony capitalism at its finest and good proof that neither companies nor government really like a free market.
It's not necessarily unethical on Amazon's side, but it's criminally unethical on the city's sides, who were offering up their hard-working citizen's money to subsidize one of the biggest companies in existence.
And the media whored itself out to give them more hype and coverage as the wealthiest man on earth scammed taxpayers. Yet another instance where the corrupt establishment protects its own interests to the detriment of common citizens.