Mark Gongloff, Columnist

Amazon Pays Living Wage to Own the Libs

Its big pay boost will quiet critics, attract talent, and maybe set an example.

October 2, 2018 at 8:32 PM UTC

Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. He previously worked for Fortune.com, the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos may yet have the last laugh.
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What’s the price of a little peace and quiet? About $15 an hour.

That’s how much Amazon.com Inc. plans to pay its U.S. workers starting next month, the online giant announced today. Politicians from the right (President Donald Trump) and the left (Bernie Sanders) have been riding Amazon about its employment practices for a while now. Today’s announcement won immediate goodwill, at least from one side: