I'm sure they'd want nothing more than to be able to pay their employees with amazon gift cards so the only place they can spend their earnings is at the company store.
I don't doubt that they love the company store model. I've been offered AWS credits in lieu of cash for contract work.... after the cash amount was agreed to in writing and work was performed.
how would the worker pay their taxes, if amazon did that? Presumably, the US gov't will not accept amazon gift-card in lieu of cash.
You think most Amazon warehouse workers make enough to pay taxes?
Don't a lot of mechanical turk workers get paid in gift cards?