Andrew Yang is a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate who’s made technology and automation central to his campaign.
Yang says the U.S. needs a plan for how to manage the upcoming loss of millions of American trucking jobs to self-driving vehicles.
Yang wants to tax profits from self-driving trucks to give these laid-off truckers a "severance package." At the core of Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign is an existentially unsettling message: Automation is coming for our jobs and it’s going to restructure the economy. In fact, it already is, according to the candidate."Technology is now automating away millions of American […]
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