Walmart recently learned that paying people more than enough to get off of government benefits would more often precipitate better engagement and loyalty to the company, resulting in less frequent turnover, etc. (https://qz.com/work/1094309/walmart-yes-walmart-is-making-ch...)

Amazon has yet to learn this one little trick. They think they're being clever by underpaying unskilled labor and leaving them to rely partly on government benefits, but then they end up having to make up for it by hiring more often, losing time to training, having to load up schedules to make up for lost time (making each employee more expensive anyway), and ultimately defending themselves against nasty articles documenting their work practices.

If Walmart--the company which practically invented the practice--can move on from it, so can Amazon... a company that's mastered the art of reinvesting profits both for continual growth and to dodge Wall Street payouts for well over a decade.