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Staff writer at The Atlantic. I write about people doing stuff. LA Times alum. alana@theatlantic.com

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    Jun 25

    All those packages you're ordering from Amazon? Someone has to deliver them. For one day, I was that person. It was kind of awful.

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  2. 9 hours ago

    People are all riled up about a CA law that would require public companies to have at least one woman on their board. Quotas have had mixed results in Europe

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    A link for those who want to read the essay the president mentioned: And a key excerpt:

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  4. Retweeted
    Sep 4

    White, blue-collar, economically struggling areas? They're still struggling under Trump. But many *wealthy* Republican suburbs (which also voted for Trump, but get less attention) are thriving.

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  5. Sep 4

    Driverless trucks will replace the best-paying jobs in the trucking industry, and give rise to more unstable Amazon Flex-type jobs, unless policymakers take action, sociologist Steve Viscelli finds in a new report about self-driving trucks.

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  6. Aug 31

    The "Great Doubling" of the global workforce, as millions more people access education and come online “presents the U.S. economy with the greatest challenge since the Great Depression,” a Harvard economist predicted a decade ago.

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    Aug 31

    Another excellent piece capturing the twin anxieties of technology and globalization. The global gig economy, and digital services more broadly, provide millions with new opportunities. But many others see their careers and lives upended

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    Aug 31

    . another question to ask is to what extent the status quo in these respective places (like Serbia) forces workers to offer their skills via such platforms. it's not just the internet that is failing us at protecting workers -- it's also our governments.

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  9. Aug 31

    I was surprised at the stellar quality of the $5 short story and $5 love letter I bought on Fiverr. But what happens when talented people keep lowering their prices to compete with workers around the world and win clients?

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    Aug 31

    The Fairwork Foundation is featured in this new piece on the global gig economy's race to the bottom.

    What happens to workers when millions of people around the world are fighting for the same job? I take a look at the global gig economy:
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  11. Aug 31

    "There really is a race-to-the-bottom effect going on here, because there’s so much of an oversupply of workers,” Mark Graham, an Oxford professor who studies digital labor platforms, told me.

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  12. Aug 31

    More than half of the world -- around 4 billion people -- now have internet access. People all over are offering to write ebooks, design logos, do architectural designs on online gig platforms, often for just $5. That creates a whole lot of competition.

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  13. Aug 31

    So good:

    I have wanted to profile Vinod Khosla for years and finally I got to:
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  14. Aug 31

    What happens to workers when millions of people around the world are fighting for the same job? I take a look at the global gig economy:

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    Aug 29

    Before , read ’ report on community land trusts working to keep inner city homes affordable - forever:

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  16. Aug 29

    AirBnb, but for childcare. What could go wrong?

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  17. Aug 29

    I missed this chilling from earlier this month about the couple biking around the world, seeking human connections, killed by ISIS militants.

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  18. Aug 27

    Things I didn't know: The man behind the California lab that developed the transistor, which started a tech revolution that would create Silicon Valley, was a white supremacist and eugenics proponent.

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  19. Aug 27

    As Amazon expands its data centers, it is passing the skyrocketing cost of electricity onto people living nearby, Bloomberg reports.

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  20. Aug 24

    Great piece by on rich people who say they're changing the world through philanthropy while at the same time making it worse through their and their companies' actions. Looking forward to reading his book!

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  21. Aug 24

    I should add, someone has to deliver all those packages you're buying online. A lot of times, that job is hazardous and stressful, as I wrote about here. Below, the bruised leg of a woman who says she got attacked by a pit bull while delivering for Amazon.

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