I think you've mostly answered your own question. To some extent, Amazon presumably creates new sales (and hence new jobs in production) but this is almost cer

I think you've mostly answered your own question. To some extent, Amazon presumably creates new sales (and hence new jobs in production) but this is almost certainly offset by the jobs it destroys (middlemen of various kinds). AWS might have greater ripple effects (enabling new tech companies) but they themselves aren't large employers.