Andrew Yang: Yes, Robots Are Stealing Your Job

[The Mouth]

4. And a common sense response, too.

Highly intelligent friends of mine have the same reaction.

To be honest, I think it one of the weakest parts of his platform, and one I care about the least.

I like Andrew because he has the best sense of how rapidly, in what direction, and WHY things are changing.

I refuse to throw shade at any of the democrats running, I'll vote blue, no matter who; but Andrew, like Bernie, is really more about ideas- important ideas, inevitable ideas every bit as salient to our lives as climate change - and getting these ideas into the national discussion.

I like Bernie, but he must know his odds, like Andrew's, of getting elected POTUS in 2020 are infinitesimal, but getting ideas out there that the nation as a whole needs to think and deal with is more important than any individual ego. The concepts Yang is talking about are actually bloody obvious, but painful for entire segments of the population nonetheless; the job that I worked summers in high school and JC at the warehouse is done better, cheaper, and faster by a robot. A logical extension of capitalism is that, unfettered, corporations will harvest and utilize every byte of data about you, from the porn you like to your genes to what you bought on Amazon yesterday. Like climate change,. it doesn't matter in the slightest what someone thinks about this trend, it simply is.

Bernie got people talking about economic inequality. Andrew is going to get, and is getting, people talking about the Future Shock that is going to hit us just as inevitably as rising sea levels.