Amazon’s push for higher wages has one winner: Amazon

Published October 2, 2018 7:16pm ET



Jeff Bezos will raise wages for Amazon employees in the United States to $15 an hour. That’s great. What’s not so great is that he is also now trying to lobby the government to force that wage standard on other companies.

Amazon is free to pay its employees what it wants. That’s how it should be.

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