Democratic Presidential candidate Andrew Yang is running a campaign stunt to promote his sole campaign issue: universal basic income (UBI). The problem is that even Yang gets his own idea wrong. What’s he’s doing is charity, not UBI. This week, Yang announced that he would give one random Twitter user $12,000 if they followed and retweeted him. That is a creative example of charity or philanthropy but it’s not UBI because, thankfully, he’s not the government.
The former tech executive wants Washington to fight unemployment and expected poverty from automated jobs displacing workers, by giving every adult in the U.S. […]
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