No doubt you are correct... They could be a model employer, but they chose not to be...In my area Amazon is paying as much your so called "very low end" jobs. $15 an hour is the norm here. Amazon is what is called a burn'em and churn'em place in our city. They go through employees like crazy, terrible hours, not really benefit crazy either. They test for random and suspected drug use and because marijuana is legal in our state, the failure rate is very high. They aren't the great employer that this area thought they were.
They've still added 2 million jobs to their workforce, just the past year.