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Andrew Yang: Automation puts one in three jobs at risk.
Its Time To Take Andrew Yang SeriouslyThe inevitability of automation, job loss and the only presidential candidate willing to talk about it.
One of the main reasons Donald Trump won in 2016, is that we automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs based in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Missouri, [and] Iowa all the swing states he needed to win in the center of the country. A lot of that [the work available] is manufacturing work, Yang explained on The Joe Rogan Experience last week.
We actually are getting rid of the most common jobs in the U.S. economy [held] by high school graduates and then replacing them with a handful of jobs for higher skilled people in different places. Then, were pretending that the first [displaced] population is somehow going to access those new opportunities, when the odds are of them moving to Seattle and becoming a web designer or a logistics manager or a data scientist are essentially near zero.
This is what gave rise to a lot of the anger that got Donald Trump elected. They looked around their communities and were like Hey, I used to work in this manufacturing plant, this manufacturing plant no longer exists, and, for whatever reason, Im being told that its somehow my fault that I wasnt adaptable enough.
https://medium.com/nat_65543/its-time-to-take-andrew-yang-seriously-bb3d341927dc
Andrew proposes a Univeral Basic Income of $12,000 per year for Adults 18 years or older.
https://www.yang2020.com/policies/the-freedom-dividend/
Its time to have a debate on GMI - Guaranteed Minimum Income? Neo liberals treat workers as roadkill. Trade and automation may push along the economy but Corporations and Government are free riders, shirking all the economic, social and human costs. Time to pay up, IMO.
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Andrew Yang: Automation puts one in three jobs at risk. (Original Post)
crazytown
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Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)1. His thoughts on UBI and a well thought out
Set of policies as listed on his website are reasons I support him.
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crazytown
(7,277 posts)2. Agreed.
From a political point of view, I think the imost important thing is everyone gets. Its funded by pregrwssive taxation but paid to all as of right.
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pansypoo53219
(21,004 posts)3. BUTBUTBUT LEISURE TIME! they said LEISURE.
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crazytown
(7,277 posts)4. Unemployed leisure. Lot's of it.
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Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)5. If we can come to some social agreement on his humanity first concept
and move beyond the GDP measurement of how we are as a society doing, I think we could all be far better off than we are or will likely be without doing so.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/12873880
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