In September of this year, the New York Times reported that Amazon "employed 300,000 people globally by its 20th year as a public company, the fastest any American company has reached that mark." The Times' source for this statistic was the Progressive Policy Institute, an organization that the newspaper described as a "left-leaning think tank."

What's perhaps interesting about the Amazon story is just how uninteresting it actually was. Amazon is one of the most valuable companies in the world, so naturally, its hiring pace was, and still is, rapid. Figure that in its discussion of Amazon's hiring, the Times was explaining why there would be feverish bidding for Amazon's second headquarters. Well, of course, there would be. It's well known that wherever this most prosperous of companies sets up HQ2 will be the setting for abundant job opportunities at high rates of pay.