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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 3318577" data-attributes="member: 58386">Denver mayor Michael Hancock announced that Denver and the state would offer 7 billion in concessions to grab Amazon as well as admitting that given the fact that it took Amazon 20 years to each 40,000 employees total HQ2 would be a multi decade program if it were to reach 50,000 employees operating out of the new headquarters.    Now let's say that you're a 59 year old Denver resident too late in life to become a part of the new "gig" or the new "app" economy but you could very well end up spending the rest of your life helping to recoup through higher fees and taxes  the mountain sized pile of goodies state and local government had to give to Bezos ,  but in the end have nothing to show for it in terms of personal benefit and quite possibly end up even worse off than you were before.</blockquote>