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Thread: This week's #Top5 things you need to read to understand #tech’s impact on our economy. Curated by @TEcollab's Executive Director @cbracy 👇
1. In a week when Amazon announced they’d raise the minimum wage for all employees to $15/hour, Uber’s CEO mused about the possibility of providing drivers with benefits: bit.ly/2Nn0xsv
2. I just finished a great new book that has me thinking a lot about the role the tech elite play in entrenching inequality, @winnerstakeall. If you don’t want to read the whole thing, check out this comprehensive conversation with the author @AnandWrites: bit.ly/2pAXcfQ
It’s here! The California rent control primer you’ve been waiting for #Prop10 latimes.com/politics/la-po…
In researching my rent control explainer, the divergence between economists who don’t like the policy and other researchers who do was striking. Non-economists would consistently point to the benefits gained from having stable housing and the need to help tenants immediately
I asked Christopher Palmer, an MIT economist, what the right response should be to California’s recent huge rise in property values that has had little to do with landlord investment with tenants bearing the brunt in rising rents. His response? Tax land to fund housing subsides 
