I would not be wrong in saying that Andrew Yang was an outsider in the 2020 Democratic Primary. His central platform of a Universal Basic Income, or $1000 every month for every American adult, was consistently bashed or ignored by the media. Pete Buttigieg even laughed at his idea during a debate.
And now, his concept of a UBI is being pushed as the leading solution to Covid-19.
And it’s because he was right. Yang warned of how, at some point, massive job displacement will occur, and in this situation, the social safety nets put in place would fail. In a […]
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