I should also mention, one thing that doesn’t seem obvious to me is why rich companies don’t actually just pay their fulfillment employees more? I’m assuming th

I should also mention, one thing that doesn’t seem obvious to me is why rich companies don’t actually just pay their fulfillment employees more? I’m assuming they are worried that they may not be able to expand their operation due to costs if they have set wages too high. I mean basically somebody is punching numbers into spreadsheets for lots of big companies and saying if we pay X then it means we have operating expenses that are some fraction of revenue and that is “bad”.. but I would imagine having people excited to work there because the job pays well and they can see them doing it for 10 years is probably much better than burning people out in 1 year.. it would be interesting to have somebody who sits in front of one of those spreadsheets to explain why they don’t think it works out that way.. My understanding with people in Germany working at various technical jobs like the automakers and suppliers to the automakers, they don’t get paid too much but have lots of vacation time and a nice quality of life. My take is that it is equivalently in the US would be like getting paid 50k per year but get 40 days of vacation per year that are paid. So the net result is the company employs more people to cover the workload. And have like 32 or 36 hour work weeks.