Americans Are Lining Up To Work For Amazon For $15 an Hour (qz.com)

One of the most important takeaways from Amazon's 2018 fourth-quarter and full-year earnings report, released Jan. 31, had little to do with the usual financial results. Amazon disclosed in the report that it received a record 850,000 work applications for hourly jobs in the US in October 2018 after announcing it would raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour starting Nov. 1. From a report: The company said that was more than double its previous record for job applications received in a single month. Amazon said the new $15 minimum affects more than 250,000 employees in the US and 17,000 employees in the UK (where the increase was 10.50 pound in the London area and 9.50 pound everywhere else), plus more than 200,000 workers who were hired for the holiday season. As of Dec. 31, Amazon had 647,500 full- and part-time employees, up 14% from the same period a year earlier.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Such a high minimum wage will never work because living wages aren't capitalist and this is literally white genocide and minimum wages literally killed the Lindbergh baby and a living wage is exactly the same thing as burning a flag and worse than 23 Benghazis and *pant pant pant*

*mops forehead with fedora*

Re: Not Americans

[rmdingler]

Actually, the world has replaced ditch diggers with the operators of trenching equipment...

Technology and innovation have reduced the need for ditch diggers, but there are still advantages in many circumstances to hand-digging, not the least of which is careful locating of existing subterranean water, gas, data, electrical, and sewer lines. The time cost saved by mechanical excavation is often quickly undone by necessitating additional repairs to buried utilities.

...and lament the collapse of the American system of public schools that resulted when the right-wing had to choose between education for the underclass or betraying their values voters.

One of the wonderful remnants of our formerly cutting edge system of democracy in the US is that an individual is still not restricted by a social class assignment. Here, you can still get out from under.