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You're right, Amazon isn't the best example. For comparison, the rest of FAANG make more than $500k of profits per employee and have been for a long time. Amazon has to many people in comparison - but even here, $50k extra per year makes a significant difference for the janitor. Maybe makes it more obvious that Bezos only got there by exploiting a large number of workers.
It's going to take you a long time to become a centimillionaire at 500k a year.
Amazon has a large staff of directly employed warehouse personnel. Other FAANG companies do not; in fact, the literal janitors are not actually on the payroll, they are contractors.
My contention isn't that income wouldn't increase for the lowest paid employees under this scheme, it's obvious that it would. My contention is that it's impossible for the CEO to be a billionaire if he's only earning 3x what the janitor makes unless the janitor is a centimillionaire, which is impossible.
It's difficult to explain how paying people market wages is exploitation, but ymmv depending on the amount of ressentiment in the target audience.
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