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by jedberg 2645 days ago
Yang would like to be President, but his primary goal is to force a conversation amongst all the candidates on UBI and automation, which are important things that the next President should be talking about.
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That's why I'm a little more optimistic about Yang 2024 than Yang 2020. I'm just worried that he's going to end up as the Ron Paul of the Democratic Party - highly appealing to a relatively small group of geeks, but considered a weird outsider candidate by the party mainstream.

His fundamental point is one that our society needs to contend with - "high tech" is the oil of the 21st century. Do we want that wealth to be concentrated into a few world-historical fortunes? Or do we want to use it to improve the lives of everyone?