Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, October 2nd 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today Amazon raises its minimum wage. Tesla's hitting its model 3 marks, another new California law

could change the face of tech boards of directors, and why ad supported streaming services

are the new hotness.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Amazon announced today that it will be raising the minimum wage it pays all 350,000 of its U.S. workers

including part-time temporary and seasonal employees to $15 an hour beginning next month.

If you weren't aware, late last month,

Senator Bernie Sanders introduced legislation

that he pointedly named the Bézos Act,

which would tax corporations for every dollar in government health benefits

or food stamps their employees received because those corporations were not paying their

workers enough to keep them above the poverty level.

Amazon itself has faced criticism not only for working conditions at some of its warehouses

and fulfillment centers, but for the fact that a large number of those employees were paid so little they qualified for

government assistance programs like food stamps. Today I want to give

credit where credit is due, Senator Sanders said in response to the announcement.

What Mr. Bezos has done today is not only enormously important for Amazon's hundreds of

thousands of employees, it could well be, and I think it will be, a shot heard around the world."

We listened to our critics, thought hard about what we wanted to do, and decided we wanted to lead,

Jeff Bezos said in a statement,

we're excited about this change

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