The thing is, this is a bit circular. How can Amazon pay more than others, but it hurts them less? Because they have some kind of competitive advantage, no? Tha

The thing is, this is a bit circular. How can Amazon pay more than others, but it hurts them less? Because they have some kind of competitive advantage, no? That advantage is going to manifest somewhere. Saying that they are going to get a competitive advantage by raising wages, which they could only do because they had a competitive advantage... Doesn't really go anywhere. This just happens to be the chosen manifestation of their advantage, and honestly higher wages are probably one of the more socially-positive manifestations.