General Discussion

Would you please post your source stating that half of Amazon employees in Seattle qualify for food stamps?

While the pathetic, slave wage is a fact for Amazon warehouse workers, to my knowledge, based on living in Seattle for 27 years, and being a tech worker myself, Amazon has no warehouses in Washington state anywhere, much less having any in Seattle.

Most, if not almost all of Amazon's Seattle are in tech, and are consequently well-paid. But because of the brutal corporate culture there, the churn rate is very high. So, Amazon pays high with generous benefits to justify extracting its pound of flesh, pushing overworked tech workers to rapid burnout. The average tech employment there is 2 years. Tech workers put up with it because it looks great on the resume. It's perceived as a small price to pay to use two years of hell as stepping stone to a much better job.

Bezos won't be happy until Amazon is 100% automated and all the workers are replaced by robots. He is the ultimate greed-monger. Makes Bill Gates look like the Archangel Gabriel in comparison.

And finally, I believe that all the Silicon Valley tech companies who have relocated to Seattle are more to blame for the Seattle inequity crisis than Amazon is. I'm a big time Bezos hater, but I still wouldn't make him and his company the scapegoat for all of Seattle's problems. There's more than enough blame to go around.