The thing is, it's not a foregone conclusion that we'll get to there. Amazon believes it's in their interests to fight tooth and nail to prevent unions from forming, and historically, it has been able to do so.

Of course, there's some pretty good evidence that companies that treat and pay their workers well are more successful than those that try to scrape by treating them like disposable machine parts. But it's not, and has never been, all about the money: a lot of it is about power, and classism, and giving mediocre managers someone they can treat like garbage.