[SeekAndFind]

In September, Sanders ripped Amazon for not paying its workers, especially seasonal and part-timers, more. And he claimed, absurdly, that Amazon was forcing workers onto welfare — and therefore also forcing taxpayers to subsidize one of the biggest companies on Earth.

Memo to Bezos: When you start taking economic advice from an economically illiterate politician who, among other things, has lauded Venezuela's insanely destructive socialist policies, you might be heading for trouble.

[DIRTYSECRET]

DUH!

[Blue House Sue]

“Whatever else you might feel about this, you’ll pay for it. In fact, you probably already are, since Amazon just jacked up its Amazon Prime subscriptions by $20.”

You would only pay that if you sign up for Amazon Prime.

Otherwise, there is no cost to you.

You can instead shop at Sears.

[Moonman62]

I vote for Crass Political Opportunism.

Bezos is a snake and the Washington Post is an evil extension of the evil Democrat party.

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

Bozo can afford paying his peeons $20/hr. Why doesn’t he if he cares soo much.

[uptowngirl]

I wonder if Amazon employees will keep any benefits they have or do those get taken away or reduced to cover this hike.

[mbarker12474]

We should have zero problem with a business owner deciding himself to raise the minimum wage (or median wage, or maximum wage, or deputy wage, or senior wage, or line manager wage) in his own business.

Likewise, we should have zero problem with the business owner deciding himself to place more outlay into advertising, inventory, quality raw materials, air conditioning, parking lot repair, roof fixing, employee uniforms, bigger office space, better tooling, etc.

Our problem should be instead with a THIRD PARTY compelling the business owner how to direct his financial and other resources.

It very will may be the best and most sensible thing for the business owner to raise wages of entry level employees. HE IS IN THE BEST DECISION TO DECIDE AND BENEFIT.

[BBQToadRibs]

It’s something of a pea and shell game. Increased wage for a cut in benefits and bonuses.

https://www.wisn.com/article/amazon-employees-in-kenosha-unhappy-about-minimum-wage-raise/23574647

[Buckeye McFrog]

Hard-boiled business strategy.

Force minimum wages up, and the likelihood that any start-up firm will ever get rolling to challenge you decreases significantly.

[precisionshootist]

I don't buy this story either. It's been reported that Amazon will by lobbying for wage hikes across the board. It looks to me like a tactic to drive out their competition by saddling them with unaffordable labor costs. Amazon has an abnormally large profit margin and can absorb a $15 per hour min wage but their competition can't and they know it. It's like a predatory pricing attack but using labor costs as the weapon.

It's ironic that decades ago we heard leftist scream how big corporations were evil. Those on the right defended them as pro business. Today big corporations have come full circle and are becoming the evil the left always said they were.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

It’s just crumbs to put the schmooze on, according to Representative Botox.

[central_va]

There is no common sense reason in the world that the world’s richest man has people working for him for him on public assistance. If you can’t acknowledge that then you are really ignorant naive ideologue. Politics, economics and business are intertwined and can never be separated.