>but at some point you'd think people would learn instead of being mesmerized by the promise of slightly better treatment
They have already learned, fortunately the entire 20th century was devoted to this. That is why any worker with even a little bit of brain and ability to learn perceives socialists as the main threat to his well-being.
Well given that you're the first in this subthread to even mention socialism, that lesson of the 20th century would probably ring true, yes. Although I must admit that talking about classes like that probably did help conjure that idea.
Of course, it's not like one needs to be a Marxist or even any other sort of a socialist to see the whole "employers are screwing their employees", since I do doubt that many employees working in Amazon's tech like AWS and whatnot would be in the ideology. In fact, that has become a fairly popular position even outside of traditionally leftist politics.
> fairly popular position even outside of traditionally leftist politics
Only leftist politics will actually be able to address the issues. Of course people will just mindlessly scream "sOcIaLiSm!" at anything and everyone, but it ultimately doesn't matter. We still have to be optimistic, once enough people have the vocabulary to think about their increasingly parlous circumstance, things will change in our direction inevitably.
They have already learned, fortunately the entire 20th century was devoted to this. That is why any worker with even a little bit of brain and ability to learn perceives socialists as the main threat to his well-being.