Anybody who doesn't like working for Amazon can walk out the door and never look back. Amazon can't make you work, cannot make you stand on your head, cannot put you in jail, cannot send your family to a labor camp, etc.
> Who’s gonna win in that pairing?
If Amazon is so powerful, why aren't all its employees working at minimum wage?
The US is full of people who don't work for Amazon. Plenty of choices.
Amazon does have a habit of putting its distribution centers in economically depressed places with no jobs where all the people who could leave already did.
In the 1930s the US government provided an "employer of last resort" to prevent giving people like bezos from wielding this kind of power and growing the economy but apparently these days weak moral platitudes suffice.
Sorry but you sounds like you are completely out of touch with the poor.
In economically depressed area, Amazon can offer a penny better than a few handful employers and people will try and see if they can earn a better living, even if they heard enough story about how stressful it is working at Amazon.
Move? You might be wealthy enough to do so, but do you think those living in those area have enough money to afford that? The so called penniless immigrants, they paid their way to get to the border and try to cross the border illegally. You are talking about those who are living in the country legally, and not in a situation to move.
As I wrote, penniless immigrants crossing the southern border migrate to every part of the US. How do you think they manage that? Have you seen the news footage of caravans of them walking thousands of miles to get to the border?
Every corner of the US was settled by penniless people, including the colonists who arrived here penniless.
> Who’s gonna win in that pairing?
If Amazon is so powerful, why aren't all its employees working at minimum wage?
The US is full of people who don't work for Amazon. Plenty of choices.