{"id":1108,"date":"2018-08-26T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/2018\/08\/26\/with-greed-and-cynicism-big-tech-is-fueling-inequalities-in-america-by-filloux\/"},"modified":"2018-08-26T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T18:00:00","slug":"with-greed-and-cynicism-big-tech-is-fueling-inequalities-in-america-by-filloux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/with-greed-and-cynicism-big-tech-is-fueling-inequalities-in-america-by-filloux\/","title":{"rendered":"With Greed and Cynicism, Big Tech is Fueling Inequalities in America (by @filloux)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mondaynote.com\/with-greed-and-cynicism-big-tech-is-fueling-inequalities-in-america-b836f0aaf03a\" target=\"_blank\">With Greed and Cynicism, Big Tech is Fueling Inequalities in America \u2013 Monday Note, Frederic Filloux<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2026In the end, local taxpayers will subsidize Amazon shareholders\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Hi-tech firms are prominent among recent tax-break \u201cmegadeals\u201d awarded by cities and states. Tesla\u2019s battery factory ($1.3bn from Nevada), Foxconn\u2019s display-screen plant in Wisconsin ($4.8bn) and Apple\u2019s data centre in Iowa ($214m) are typical. The Apple centre, a cloud computing facility, will have only 50 permanent jobs, so the cost per job exceeds $4.2m. The Foxconn deal, even by the state\u2019s own official estimate, won\u2019t break even for taxpayers for 25 years \u2014 an extremely risky time horizon given the likelihood of new technologies leapfrogging the company\u2019s product much sooner. The Tesla deal was 14 times costlier than anything Nevada had done before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Ysf-Haz9_dU\/W4JhJ733MKI\/AAAAAAAAC-g\/W_2yb-qQYfAHaiP2Z_gSkhuZ6KXNoep5ACK4BGAYYCw\/s1600\/KNOLSKAPE_GAFAM_blog_web_banner.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Ysf-Haz9_dU\/W4JhJ733MKI\/AAAAAAAAC-g\/W_2yb-qQYfAHaiP2Z_gSkhuZ6KXNoep5ACK4BGAYYCw\/s640\/KNOLSKAPE_GAFAM_blog_web_banner.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Greed and Cynicism, Big Tech is Fueling Inequalities in America \u2013 Monday Note, Frederic Filloux \u2026In the end, local taxpayers will subsidize Amazon shareholders\u2026 Hi-tech firms are prominent among recent tax-break \u201cmegadeals\u201d awarded by cities and states. Tesla\u2019s battery factory ($1.3bn from Nevada), Foxconn\u2019s display-screen plant in Wisconsin ($4.8bn) and Apple\u2019s data centre in  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,32,34,31,33,30,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosillas-empresariales","category-economia","category-filantropia","category-la-vida-misma","category-politica","category-sociologia","category-tecnologia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}