Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Does Amazon want to play us for fools?
Now, we need to talk about that Amazon announcement yesterday.
These guys have taken us for fools in this country. They've looked at us in New Zealand and they've gone, let's take these guys for fools.
That $7.5 billion wasn't new, it was already announced by Jacinda 4 years ago. It's not even actually a convincing number, because it looks like what they've done here is included their power bills.
Now power bills are not an investment, they're an operating cost. The 1000 jobs that Amazon now tells us that they're supporting also looks questionable.
It looks like they've included people who…
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