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Amazon Now Has More Than 341,000 Employees -- Added 110,000 People Last Year (geekwire.com)
Amazon added more than 110,000 employees during the past year, topping 341,000 people as of the end of 2016 thanks largely to a significant increase in the Seattle-based tech giant's network of fulfillment centers around the world and further expansion of its businesses in several overseas new markets. From a report: Amazon employed just 32,000 people globally five years ago. Amazon's net growth of more than 110,000 people during the past year almost rivals Microsoft's total employment of 120,000 people as of Dec. 31. That comparison of Microsoft and Amazon isn't apples-to-apples given the differences in their businesses, but it gives a sense of the scope of Amazon's employment base. Amazon employs about 40,000 people in Washington state, compared to 45,000 for Microsoft. Amazon doesn't show any signs of slowing down. The company said previously that it plans to add another 100,000 full-time jobs in the U.S. over the next 18 months.
Jobs are good, but these trends in employment resonate on target with those who say we are the first generation in a long time who will not leave a better life for our children.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
Jobs are good, but these trends in employment resonate on target with those who say we are the first generation in a long time who will not leave a better life for our children.
Well that's what Trump wants. He wants to "bring back manufacturing jobs" to the US. Never mind that the factory jobs that left the US did so because of high labor rates and the only way to get them back and keep them is to pay people competitive wages... for China. So if you're good with paying people $2/hour then we can bring back all kinds of jobs. But they won't be ones with good wages. The ones with good wages aren't for slapping together happy meal toys.
Now if you want high paying jobs then you have to invest in education, research, infrastructure, etc and train people to do jobs that are worth more than unskilled assembly work will ever justify.
Who are they? It probably depends on where you live.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
Unfortunately, these jobs pay about like Walmart employee.
Jobs are good, but these trends in employment resonate on target with those who say we are the first generation in a long time who will not leave a better life for our children.
What do you expect after 8 years of trying to "remake our economy"...
trying? No credit for rebuilding after the greatest collapse since the collapse in 1929? No credit for the stock market not just recovering, but at record highs? No credit for unemployment falling to under 5% (Yes, we all know that's funny counting, but when unemployment was over 10% in 2008, that was funny counting then too.)
I don't know how your 401K is doing, but mine has grown 10% per year, on average, over the last eight years. That's exclusive of what I've added over the last eight years.
... in ways that make close-minded, sheltered, WHITE suburban "progressives" happy?
versus the close-minded, sheltered white suburban conservatives? Frankly you don't win points by being patronizing.
"Drive for $15"? So what if it makes minority workers with no skills
That's your code word for blacks and hispanics, yes?
because they come out of failed schools
whose fault is that?
too expensive to compete in the labor market, thus locking them into a cycle of poverty?
so your solution is to keep them in poverty anyway. So they can stay on SNAP at the rest of our expense? indefinitely.
And BTW, $15/hour seems to work just fine in, e.g., Europe and Australia. Somehow they can still sell a Whopper combo for $5 while paying the worker bees a decent wage that doesn't require them to also be on food assistance in order to survive.
It makes sheltered white suburban "progressives" feel good about themselves.
again, not winning points. I'm pretty sure I'm not sheltered. I feel good about doing good things. Some would label them Christian things. You probably call yourself a Christian. If you do, I'd probably label you a hypocrite.
"War on coal"? So what if it regressively makes electricity more expensive and disproportionately hurting the poor, it makes sheltered white suburban "progressives" feel good about themselves.
I'm sensing a theme. Did "progressives" abuse you as a child or something? Back on topic. Yeah, keep your head buried in the sand. Ignore the science. Let's keep burning coal – because it's cheap, and it'll keep a few thousand coal miners in West Virginia employed. Keeping them employed like this probably will end up being the most expensive welfare ever when the climate really starts to warm up. But sure, you won, we're get over it. Well, until we win again. Will you get over it like you told us to?
"Ban fracking!" So what if it regressively makes energy, food, and everything else more expensive and limits job growth for the growing US population, it makes sheltered white suburban "progressives" feel good about themselves.
You have a real jones going on for sheltered white suburban progressives, don't you? I'm beginning to think that you're either Kellyann Conway or Steve Bannon.
You need to lay off the Rush Limbaugh, Breitbart, and Faux News for awhile. You'd be surprised how good it feels once you're not being brainwashed with that drivel. You'll be amazed at how good you feel when you start thinking for yourself again.
But back to the topic at hand: So instead you propose we should keep energy, food, and everything else artificially less expensive while simultaneously destroying the environment because you don't believe the science.
Yeah it's real tough to take you seriously. Have a nice day Kellyann.
It's not that they can't afford healthcare for their workers, it's that they don't value their workers enough to care (i.e. putting profit and bonuses before their worker's well-being). They have a large base of people who are desperate for any sort of work just to survive. Many workers are competing for the job. The companies are not competing to hire their workers. Yes, some of us have the knowledge, skills, and references we need to find better, higher-paying jobs where companies are competing for us, but not everyone has that option. Just because we can treat our workers like shit doesn't mean we should.
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