Treating workers properly is not at all hard or elusive. It just costs money.

Are you an Amazon employee? Who are you trying to virtue signal for, here?

I would come up with a system that actually informs workers of what their productivity targets are and allows them to monitor their progress with accurate data in real time.

I would also not have an automated process for termination, if for no other reason than attrition and retraining are more costly in the long run than underperformance by a fraction of a percent. Particularly given the variables that can affect performance which are out of the employee's control.

No not an Amazon employee, but about 20 years ago I worked in a Warehouse and the guys were absolute deadbeat drug addicts who stole and spent the whole time smoking cigarettes and goofing off.

Now of course i'm sure most warehouse workers aren't like that but I can't even imagine what managing 125,000 low-skilled employees like that would be like, and i'm sure the turnover is absolutely massive as well.

It's all unicorns and rainbows and posturing until you're the guy who has to actually manage them.

Can you defend Amazon's policies on the basis of logistics, or economics? Because you seem to have little to bring to the table beyond voicing your contempt for the labor class.

One approach would be to pay more and attract better workers that way.

The solution is simple, we adopt labor laws in line with other developed economies. We ENFORCE the ones we have now (I count several violations in this story), and we get workers on the board of companies, like Germany.

I have to say, you stereotyping all warehouse workers as drug addicts and thieves is not a good look. It says more about you than them.