Yang’s Humanity First campaign sparks debate about the future

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Andrew Yang wasn’t in the most recent Democratic debate, but he continues to amass a hard core of supporters, many attracted by his position regarding technology eliminating jobs, a central issue of our time.
Yang has written: “Since 2000, technology has replaced the jobs of four million American manufacturing workers and decimated communities. … Experts are predicting that one out of three Americans will lose their jobs to new technology in the next twelve years.” Yang has also said, “In an economy of $21 trillion a year there is no reason for poverty.”
His proposal for a Universal Basic Income to mitigate the crisis is popular among many, with more than half of people age 18-49 supporting it.
This quote is illustrative of people’s response to Yang’s ideas: “Andrew Yang is talking about things that are existential threats that if we don’t start addressing them actively with comprehensive solutions, I think it’s going to be too late.” – Brandon Laws, a Nashua, NH, alderman and Sanders supporter, quoted by NBC News.

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