Climate change and infrastructure are both massive problems that a Democratic president and congress must fund, and the jobs opened up in those two arenas alone could employ the workers whose jobs are lost to automation and more. And those jobs would pay more than the bare subsistence that Yang's basic income would provide.

Yang's solution strikes me as not just impossible to fund but a road to a dystopic future.

I'd love to see it.

The idea seems great, but even if it works out fantastically well, I don't believe it will be enough to even keep most people employed, let alone paid enough to live on.

While you see UBI as a dystopian nightmare, I see an FJG as leading down that path. If Trump had a federal workforce available to do what he wanted now, he'd have his wall.

People might pay more attention if their job is listed as at-risk.

Which is based on certain job characteristics.

https://www.kempler.com/automation-nation

Specific job titles may get their attention better than a generalized list of characteristics. I could see a list like that going viral on social media.

saying that we'll just retrain, it's happened before, etc.

... Has anyone seen poor Grovelbot lately?

pink slipped.