This John Oliver segment has a way of popping back into the relevant category

In case you haven't been following the news.

New York is paying Amazon $1.5 billion: https://t.co/NqJcZyBfU2

— Felix Salmon (@felixsalmon) November 13, 2018

Among the stuff various cities offered Amazon: zero-interest loans for Amazon employees to buy houses in Boston, a taskforce to prevent an "unacceptable murder rate" in Columbus, an extra Amazon-only carriage added to trains in Atlanta https://t.co/8U0M69z6Zd

— Tom Gara (@tomgara) November 15, 2018