[mikeash]

On one hand, $100 is small potatoes and employees shouldn't care that much.

On the other hand, people are often irrational and do care that much. Which makes it kind of weird that Amazon doesn't provide free Prime to their employees, because that $100 value (and what's their actual cost?) probably buys a lot more than $100 of employee satisfaction.

So while I certainly wouldn't say that Amazon is somehow mistreating their workers by not giving them this stuff, I do think it's kind of weird that they don't.

[taeric]

Ridiculously well put and I feel you hit a bullseye. I still don't understand it. But I do think you hit right on the money.