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I'd be all for worker protection laws. That has however nothing to do with this article.

Amazon is good because they are paying and treating their employees better than any of the options those people previously had.

Would you prefer it if the warehouses were staffed by robots instead?

I'm sort of serious but I am sympathetic to your viewpoint because those warehouses are as close as you can get to a legal sweatshop in a 1st world country.

So what happens when a non-exploitative business tries to sell books at a low price?