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> They're creating this massive underclass of workers that won't be able to afford any of the services they provide.

My understanding is they set a corporate minimum wage of $15/hour. Is this not a higher wage than more than half of Americans?

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Sure, it's certainly better than nothing. However, it's not really altruistic on Amazon's part. They avoid significant unionization, workplace democratization, or material social change by paying their workers a tiny bit more, while still extracting enormous surplus value from them. Furthermore, when they increased wages they cut benefits.

Regardless, this doesn't invalidate my point. $15/hr is still no where near enough to participate in a lot of these at-home services. I make many multiples of that and find a cleaner + multiple security subscriptions too expensive for my taste.

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