[kyshoc]

For context: if Amazon were to use all of its profits from FY18 (~$11B) to pay its ~650K workers more, it would come out to just under $17,000 per worker.

[AnthonyMouse]

I knew I should have been more specific to begin with.

Last year was neither a typical year nor is that the profit from retail.

https://www.thestreet.com/opinion/amazon-is-losing-money-fro...

AWS makes good money, but you can't really expect them to use it all to subsidize retail (even more than they already do) forever.