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by astrange 760 days ago
No, wages are set by negotiating with workers; Amazon is not purely a price setter of wages. That means giving workers money lets them get better wages. (They would be one if they were a monopsony though. But mostly they aren't.)

> under pressure from the government to take any Job.

Work requirements for welfare can indeed hurt workers this way by making them take worse jobs.