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For most employers satisfied, happy, and content workers are just underexploited. If they aren't miserable you aren't getting your monies worth.

Its a legitimate mindset way too much of the business world in the US believes despite the psychological evidence that content and happy employees are more productive.

The consequence of such a widely held backwards rewards structure is that in almost any job there is someone else doing something even worse that is more than willing to take your spot to reduce their misery by a fraction.

I feel like there is some selection bias there - you certainly aren't going to be interviewing very many people who are happy with their current job at Amazon.

It is pretty out of touch statement, if you read it carefully. There are probably 1000 people waiting in line to fill those 100 people's jobs. The good jobs you described, decent pay without labor or stress, I do believe they exist, but it is not common, and surely won't become the norm.