"Anyone upset with this could just cancel their prime membership and stop doing business with Amazon." No, this is not quite reasonable. Consumers do not real

"Anyone upset with this could just cancel their prime membership and stop doing business with Amazon." No, this is not quite reasonable. Consumers do not realistically have this kind of power, especially vis-a-vis very large entities. It would take a massive, massive informational campaign, massive awareness, coordination, coordination in the press etc.. For the same reason in the 19th century, before unions, people couldn't just 'not shop somewhere'. Labour practices are best codified in law and policy. I'm not a big fan of unions, where they are entrenched, they often have too much power ... But where unions are 'possibly forming', it's usually for a very good reason. Salaries for many working class jobs can't be left entirely up to the free market, otherwise they'd be earning next to zero. It's really quite a paradox how benevolent Bezos and his ideological friends seem to be, all their charities blah blah blah and yet they treat many of their labour workers terribly. There are some real horror stories from the picking/packing plants.