Andrew Yang: Automation puts one in three jobs at risk.

It’s Time To Take Andrew Yang Seriously

The 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, we’re 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, I’m being told that it’s somehow my fault that I wasn’t 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/

It’s 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.