Amazon To Becomes San Bernardino's Largest Employer In The City

If you look to the other side of the country, you'll see a similar dynamic at work.

When you zoom in on specific locations, you may see glimpses of one conceivable future: a corporation town, in which a monopoly employer essentially becomes the governing body for public goods and services.

It has long been true that this description increasingly applies to Seattle, where Amazon has more office space than the next forty biggest firms combined.

However, how this relates to neighborhoods surrounding the company's facilities is less clear.

Consider, the Inland Empire, a rural and exurban region in California that is densely packed with warehouses due to its closeness to Los Angeles.

Students at Cajon High School, a public high school in San Bernardino, can take classes in the Amazon Logistics and Business Management Pathways career track, many of whom have family members who work for Amazon.