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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by foota on Saturday November 28, 2020 @09:59AM (#25237899)
In fairness, not all the employees in a town work for one company, and Amazon isn't all there is now in that hypothetical town.
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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by javajosh on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:17AM (#25238020)
The point is that the retail service industry was a big source of "bullshit jobs" that America needs to a) keep wealth distribution reasonable^, and b) keep people believing that success is all about hard work and gumption&.

   ^ There are differing opinions on what is "reasonable".
   & It sometimes is, but is usually about circumstance.
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Re:Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months by karatinversion on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:23AM (#25238061)
javajosh, you seem to have a very strange model of the motives of managers in retail, a famously low-margin business.
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