These sound like platitudes. And in particular the claim of Amazon's tremendous autonomy for workers doesn't even ring true to me (though I could be wrong since I'm basing this on anecdotal conversations with Amazon engineers).

I think there are real, deterministic reasons why Amazon is successful (other than its unscrupulous practices) but I'm not sure your comment adequately covers them. It's hard to make these determinations post hoc because they are not easily falsifiable.