I don't think this is true. I remember when I was in the Army, I was a commissioned officer, and a whole lot of junior enlisted Soldiers who were discharging we

I don't think this is true. I remember when I was in the Army, I was a commissioned officer, and a whole lot of junior enlisted Soldiers who were discharging were intentionally looking to go work at Amazon fulfillment centers. While I imagine they're not "great" jobs in terms of the working conditions, they did seem to pay better than anything else you could do without specialized skills in the areas they were located in. As long as the job is full time and offers health insurance, that's gold in a lot of places. Keep in mind the cost of living can be extremely low in rural areas. I think back to a good friend from college that came out to LA to live with me 20 years ago to follow his dream of being a television writer. We shared a 2-bed place that was something like $1,400 a month or so back then. Where he was from, Charles Town, WV, the rent on a comparable place was between $100 and $200 a month. A full-time job that pays more than double the federal minimum wage is more than enough to make it there. It definitely isn't in New York City, of course, which starts to get at the real problem, but this isn't really an Amazon problem. No matter how strong a union ends up being, they're not going to push wages high enough for unskilled labor to ever be able to comfortably live in a place like New York City, but New York City still needs things like Amazon fulfillment centers. This is a problem with cities in general. None of them can house the low-skill populations they nonetheless require to do most of the labor required to make a city livable for everyone else.