We all know it: Amazon pays many of its workers so little some of them need public welfare to get by. But what would it look like if the State didn't subsidize their labor costs?
Amazon's annual net income for 2023 was 30.42 billion dollars. They had 1.5 million workers in that same year.
If Bezos suddenly became mad, turned mildly socialist and decided to distribute 50% of that net income to Amazon workers, every single worker at Amazon would have made an additional U$10,000 a year (U$845 a month). Amazon would still have grown by 15.21 billion dollars.