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by luckystartup 3422 days ago
Wow. That's an enormous number of people. There are 54 countries with smaller populations.

Still, this is nothing to sneeze at. It looks like Amazon is now the 8th largest employer in the US [1]. Walmart is number 2, after the Federal government.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers_in_t...

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Someone edited Amazon's count but didn't change the ranks, and ignored the "2015" marker.