Calvin Warner In February, quixotic Democrat Andrew Yang dropped out of the presidential race after failing to stoke enough excitement for his Freedom Dividend, a form of universal basic income that would send $1,000 monthly checks to every American. Yang argued this payment was necessary to offset the coming displacement as automation and self-driving vehicles eviscerate common service and manufacturing jobs.
Yang’s ideas were radical in February, but implemented by April as $1,200 stimulus checks hit most Americans’ bank accounts. The gloomy worries of automation displacing millions of workers now seem quaint compared with the economic damage wrought by the […]
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