[maxerickson]

My point is that the problem is largely one of perception.

The hundreds of thousands of people in the area with technical educations aren't working at McDonald's.

[s73ver_]

"My point is that the problem is largely one of perception."

That very well might be true, but that's Detroit's problem to fix, not Amazon's. Amazon doesn't want to have to deal with that; they want a place that they can get people to come to day 1.

[maxerickson]

Of course. Note that my first comment is literally pushback against the poor perception...

[hbosch]

So, where are they working?