People who complain “there’s no opportunity for Americans” are full of it. The business section of the local paper today has an article about an entrepreneur who founded ski apparel company Arctica and his growth in southwestern Wisconsin.
Opportunity is everywhere, especially with President Trump!
150 MILLION Prime members! Unbelievable. I joined as soon as it was introduced in 2005 and our membership has never lapsed.
Half a million employees is staggering. I started off with a company that had 30,000 and I thought that was huge! I eventually joined a company with 100,000 employees, but a few years later it had ZERO employees. You win some, you lose some.
A regret of mine of not buying Amazon stock when it went IPO.
Where do people learn to write like this and still get paid for it???? OMG - this little nugget would have kept you from even writing for the college newspaper as the editor and faculty advisor would have round-filed your application and article portfolio.
That number makes them a BIG, JUICY TARGET for some union to organize.
Half a million employees is staggering.
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Yes, it is. Another million or so and they will catch up with Wal-Mart. I’ve read that Wal-Mart pays their hourly workers a little better though. Locally (Central Illinois) starting pay $11.50 per hour.
“this is one of the most incredible American business success stories in history. Railroads, telegraph, telephone, steel...then aviation, automobiles, Big entertainment, huge food companies, big pharmaceutical...then computers, chips, satellites, telecommunications and e-commerce.”
Ahead of Pipelines, railroads came kerosene, and then oil. If it wasn’t for kerosene, railroads and pipelines would not have followed and that was I think out of the oil fields of Pennsylvania. It was the propagation of kerosene and oil that drove the heavy Industries and created the infrastructure because of the demand across a broad area of the United States.
Good for Amazon and Bezos. Too bad Bezos has such screwed up politics. Wish he could have been “one of ours”.
He’s definitely providing value. Just think of how much shopping time he’s saving people each week. That time is precious, and that’s why he’s doing a good thing here.
Amazon is a prime (you're welcome Amazon) example of a corporation that people like Bernie are determined to fix. In the process of fixing it he'll kill off as many of those 500,000 jobs as he can manage to.
Imagine the amount of tax revenue this one corporation creates for the federal government and some states.
500,000 people pay income taxes because Amazon employs them.
500,000 homes in the United States rely on Amazon for part of their economic activity.
Bernie, "Those evil corporations, we'll teach them a thing or two..."
You don't have to think very hard to imagine how much damage this guy could do to citizen's lives.
I was interviewed at Amazon by 12 young straight white liberal guys.
There was also one woman, but she wasn’t allowed to speak.
#1 They spent all their time filling out T.P.S reports.
Office Space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsLUidiYm0w
My son just went to work for Amazon.
$200K to start. Hard to turn down for a young guy.