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Yang was ahead of its time and the presidential campaign. The world needs more analytical, science based politicians. Yang Gang 2024!!!

Thank you Andrew for not giving up and continuing to fight to make our country a better place.

We are still a part of something big. Do what you can from where you are. Andrew doesn’t quit and neither can we.

Andrew Yang is the Best

Ladies and gentlemen, the host is the awesome Carly Reilly. She was Andrew Yang's capaign finance person. Indeed, this is a #YangGang reunion!

We need UBI now more than ever! Things are getting pretty dire and more people are living paycheck to paycheck.

As a YangGanger from 2020, I've really missed this.

It's crazy to see how sharp Andrew still is. He's still doing the damn thing. I still miss having a hero on the national stage though.

This video definitely long overdue. We enjoyed so much your speech and always looking forward to your inspiring ideas and most optimistic politician I knew in our most darkest democracy era. I know politician in our country has bad label but it doesn’t need to be and politicians should be proud of what they do by helping each other.

I firkin love this guy

Okay East Coast, take it easy with the 5 am premieres please. Sorry if I missed a livestream, but applaud the consistent, practical optimism of Andrew Yang, and especially the wife and family who ground and support him, making his success not only real but meaningful. Much love.

This GUY - AY is simply the Best 👌 and America 🇺🇸 missed him as President. Dark Times in the History of USA 🇺🇸

Andrew Yang, you are an inspiration to us all ❤

Yang has great ideas and data to back it up. Sensible and concise policy ideas. We need him but majority of America isn't ready. I imagine if him and Vivek were to team up it could bring enough support from both parties to bring impactful change. One can dream!

Thank you so much, Andrew for trying to get us UBI/Freedom Dividend. We need it so much, but when people get stuck in a cycle of survival, it is really hard to do anything else. I feel like a lot of poor people are experiencing learned helplessness.

Whomever gets AY on their cabinet has a forward thinking advocate.

I learned about UBI from Andrew Yang in 2019. I would love to see Andrew and RFKJr together interview.

Yang should push more what he knows: the whole history of how Republicans invented UBI. It was in the early 1960s. In books by Milton Friedman, top economic guy for Ronald Reagan. We called it "Negative Taxation". It wasn't ready when Richard Nixon took a look at it. It will be ready, soon. The easiest way to sell something to someone is to convince them their side invented it....which happens to be the truth. Now is the time for extreme intellectual generosity.

A man ahead of his time! We love AY!!

If Americans vote for the right policymakers. It's possible.

Love that AY throws out the “Fbomb” and “A-Hole” here and there plus all the while being artfully concise and articulate.

#AI and #robots will not kill you; but will take your lunch money. Time for the #FreedomDividend (#UBI) #securethebag

Carly is the best We're cheering for Zach and Carly!

You will prevail Andrew. I know you will be president in our near future. It is your destiny.

Love you man, thank you for the clarity as always, I voted for you!

Giving money to any specific group of people, even if it is the parents of children, will always face steep oppositions because it is not "fair". It is taking money from certain people even if they don't have lots of money, and giving it to others. This goes directly against the principles of fiscal conservatives, libertarians, and others. A UBI on the other hand gives money, equally, to everyone and only takes it (net) from the rich. That is probably why it polls so high.

Andrew Yang for President 🇺🇸

I hope AI takes all the job as soon as possible, And UBI like system gets implemented.

I am a long supporter of an equitable UBI since the beginning for a fundamental reason. "Labour relations compelled on people in order to obtain their means of subsistence is the root of most of the evils in human society. Therefore along with the technological progress the working hours should be reduced to Zero", claims the Reduction of Working Hours Theory published in 1981. Therefore the UBI will make the human society free from most of those crimes including the crimes of sexuality.

Great job Carly! This was a great discussion.

Thank you.

Love ya Andrew #Yanggang

fantastic video

The problem with Yang's UBI idea is that it is only directed at the American economy, while the big AI companies are mostly American and therefore they will influence and extract most of the wealth from the rest of the world, thus making the economic impact of AI a global problem. You can tax OpenAI in America by 99% of its income, but how would a country which does not have a big AI company, let's say Finland, can implement UBI, who would it tax? let a lone in a case where AI would stay close source?

28:45 This is why Supply Side economics incetivizes crony capitalism. Demand Side economics, paved by UBI, never leaves people behind where the money is inverted to giving people money and corporations/ institutions must earn!

Tax the robots!

We need ubi badly, and we can't keep waiting years for an election for help😢

I think by 2030 we will have serious candidates running for office who wants to bring UBI, UBI will become a necessity

Yang bucks 😂

Just as we have buses driving through the city picking up people we should have buses that drive up and down major highways stopping at different exits along the way to let people on and off but you have to use a phone and schedule a pickup a few minutes beforehand.

Andrew Yang is too smart for the American public, too straight for the political establishment and too genuine for the media.

Run for president again 🎉🎉

Shallow, leaders simply NOT WANT ANY CHANGE

Literally all we have to do is calculate how much tools have helped us increase production of goods and services in the economy and calculate how many humans it would take to reproduce that total amount of goods without those tools and base our total automated production percentage of the GDP off of that amount... this way as we increase automated production we can get more Universal basic income... this is a scalable system that can work with or without automation because just tools themselves have increased our production percentage and have gotten rid of human jobs...

Let’s go!!!!

I'm a msw student and my husband is a michigan state representative. How can I get involved?

Lol, I came independently to the same conclusions regarding the parallel currencies. No reason we can't create economic arenas that don't interfere with civilian life, and fund through credits of sorts, agrarian, artisan, and communal living situations that still have access to the greater society at large. My framework would have regulation tied proportionally to impact, and focus on growth without loss. Being able to grow while maintaining or improving the quality of the environment/human condition. I fear the entitlement of many greedy people will be the resistance factor, and can only hope we as a species can overcome it.

It would be great to have you and RFK Jr have a long form discussion.

I believe that this is a very good idea 👍🏽

He needs to run for president again 🌍🇺🇲💸💸💸

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Coulda had Yang!

Where have you been?

VAT is ok but the best thing is a automatic flat tax and if you have a Ubi on blockchain with proof of work issued on a government issue debit card that can't be reloaded by the user you can make it completely tax-free for the end user because it's basic income as long as they spend it on the card that it's issued on it remains tax-free but if they pull out cash then cash is taxed and that way no one's going to want to pull out cash they would rather just use it on the card which incentivizes a basic level cash free economy. This system makes a automatic flat tax possible.

How do you choose the 5 candidates to participate in the general? Also via ranked choice voting?

UBI will give disappointing results without huge investments in mental health

Bernie tankies will say "hE dRoPpeD ubi FrOm hiS pLatForM hE's a gRiFtEr" and that's y I dropped any support I had for bernie sanders.

I would love for all these Andrew Yang people to call Sam Sedar on the majority report and get wrecked by him.

Universal Basic Assets are what's needed. Human well-being needs to be the currency of the day. No more of this "scarcity mentality" must be allowed to persist in society! All of us wealthy, hard-working people are capable of figuring out how to stay on top with a little more elbow grease, so we need to stop acting so scared of having to exercise the very virtues we espouse in the name of lifting our fellow-man into the same standard of living we enjoy. If we see people enduring circumstances that would be unacceptable to us (hint: this should help us define "basic" with regards to Universal Basic Assets), we need to use our ingenuity and dogged hard work to solve this problem and let the chips fall where they may. Universal Basic Assets for humanity. Such a no brainer!

Dam I wish this dude was running for the presidency…..

Ralph Nader is so progressive that he spoke about all of this over 25 years ago in his presidential campaigns, & hasn’t stopped This is all old news for people who follow progressive politics

Work Share program, which is part of current Unemployment Law, is a vital step to help Workers And Employers during economic slowdowns... easy first step on the way to UBI is maximizing programs currently already in place to help workers and employers....

Appreciate contact

Someone by the name of Scott Galloway critiqued you on your naming of UBI, you should call Negative Income Tax. If you are in NEED of something like that then you would not be taxed and if you qualify then you could go further by applying a "Negative Income Tax". I'm will to bet if you labeled it as your not being taxed you are taxing the goverment that would probably fly in the areas in the US that have a problem with the idea of " Free income".

Ubi should start with the oldest first!

2 quick takeaways: - 13:01 “the relation between popular will and policy is essentially non-existent at this point” well put problem statement. My fear would be all the lobbyists and interest groups will see ranked based voting as a threat and subsequently fight tooth and nail against it. - 42:43 the data/AI tax really need to be looked at again. Reddit is the latest to sell its data (aka OUR data) to OpenAI (financial details withheld).

Fight to bring respect back to USA

There is nothing more frustrating than watching this man try to Shepard this country into a new age of optimism, only for the country to fumble the only genuine candidate of our lifetime. Almost like I was born 30 yrs too early or American propaganda and complacency has set society 30yrs back in time. Thank you for fighting the good fight, Mr. Yang.

The UBI model already exists. It's the same as seasonal unemployment. I am in a stagehand union in Washington State, where some weeks we have little to no work, and other weeks where if you can and want 80 hours, it's there too. But during the winter we have leaner weeks more often. So through our state unemployment models, we can report our hours weekly, and they establish a baseline based on your average hours worked going back a certain amount of time like when you go on standard unemployment. If you earn more than your weekly baseline average as established, you receive nothing because you were "lucky" enough to have had a sufficient amount of work. But if you have a lean week by no fault of your own, you were available and wanted work but none was available and you don't want to switch jobs or employers, then you receive your baseline average. This is done on a weekly basis. It's a great safety net for those who qualify. This is how we sell it to those who see UBI as "rewarding lazy people", we tell them that it's based on your work history.

Why only universal *BASIC* income? Supply is created by demand and when workers are out of work, they have no money so there’s no demand. Why on earth would any capitalist in their right mind want to limit demand??? We shouldnt be talking about basic income. We should be talking about high income!

This guy could have been America's President - but people seem to want old idiots

So the American problem is affordable housing with lenient financing..

UBI is a nice dream but seems impossible. If made big enough to be useful, how do you pay for it? I mean a $1000/month bonus would certainly be a big help for me, all by itself it wouldn't keep me alive and well. If we have to print money to pay UBI it would kill us

Can taxing only Land Value[LVT] and A.I. in the future work, or Nah??

Can you talk to Peter Zeihan?

How is this going to work? california is doing it by raising wages. Look at inflation in CA right now.

Ubi please; I want my marginable stocks to go up

Andrew's a lot more cynical about society's prospects in this festival than he usually is with other appearances. I agree with him we are in a world of trouble with inflation, higher interest rates, and massive debt. He's right that we'll enter a 'time of troubles' for the next decade. We should have avoided lots of the nonsense COVID spending and just issued stimmy checks. I'd vote for Yang as president in a heartbeat; he'd be a great leader, though most of the US is too far mentally gone to appreciate Yang's potential.

my favorite part was when the Kennedy supporter was showing that it takes effort to effect change and being willing to do something about it #Kennedy24

Freedom Dividend... Premium Rate for Citizens, Lower for Nationals, lower for Perm. Residents, even lower for others (ITIN holders, etc...) But only after the deficit is corrected and the debt is paid off.

Rise of AI? Then use the money we saved times for working back to us!!

Saying getting money out of politics sounds good but it's just like saying getting money out of healthcare it sounds good on the surface but actual implementation is damn near impossible...

Negative Income Tax* Mr. Yang I’m a huge fan but NIT is definitely a better nomenclature than UBI.

Welfare payments won't solve a thing. Everyone owning and operating their own universal means of production will solve everything.

I thought today is Sunday 😂

You know this whole thing is spoken like it's almost against the Ubi it's almost like Andrew Yang is completely given up on actually forming a logical form of universal basic income...

This child tax credit thing is crap you really just need to focus on a Ubi based off the total automated production percentage of the GDP that way you can get large corporations to help fund the lobbying that needs to be done to push this forward to save the corporations from total failure due to the consumer Market collapsing because of jobs being deleted and thus value to contribute to the economy of the people being deleted so therefore the people have no money to spend and the corporations go under...

UBI is a nice idea, but how would it be implemented successfully? If UBI is introduced too soon, many workers may quit their jobs. This would cause a shortage in supplies. If we wait until robots are put into place to implement UBI, many workers will be terminated without another job to go to. This would lead to a drastic reduction of tax paying citizens and would reduce consumers on a drastic scale. I think we are starting to deal with this already. On top of all of this we have a national debt thats getting worse in this administration. Another question that I think we are all grappling with is this: What level of income would we all recieve? Would it be enough to purchase a house? Would there be enough to purchase an automobile? Would there be enough left over to buy food, clothing, school, pay insurance fees, cover HOA fees and so much more? If we built robots to build robots 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, how many years would it take to replace all the workers in our society? Lots of questions and not enough answers for a plan to be formed concerning UBI at this point. As its going right now, things are not so good on the consumer side and its just a matter of short time until the selling side of the economy. How far can we go until even the AI robotic companies are destroyed? And finally, what happens when the government controls your income and they dont approve of what you say? Freedom of speech could come under attack by government. Ive heard that this is how communism took over China, and we US citizens value our freedom of speech, although sensorship has crept in in the last few decades.

I wish public speakers would stop presenting answers in rhetorical question form, its a tedious way to share information...He's right though, if you create a desperate environment it creates desperate people who do desperate things, give people the basics of modern life and watch most problems simply evaporate with some unexpected benefits like happy people wandering around...What a novel idea. Entrenched power and money will never let a ubi happen any other way other than force which means a whole lot of ugly before things get better.

The path was already identified. See Chairman Mao.

Both

Great… more taxes

the solve the most pressing problems of the country . we need to elect leaders that have americas interest at heart . not the worlds interest . we need a better class of servants

Confusing

Paul Harvey - "If I were the devil" 1965

Next year,?there is always next year!Congress lost values,principles I am not a politician but have positive progressive better concepts I'd like to be heard

UBI will be a disaster

the red flags at the 31 minute mark are scary (the New Types of Economies section), investing in religious institutions(among others), and multiple currencies..? if the community gallery is good, and the community is fruitful, the gallery will be successful, if it sucks for any reason, it needs to fail. I don't want another government appendage run by status seekers playing artist.. if there needs to be a gallery, or a cinema, or some other obsolete mechanism of times past, one will happen... if we're going to thrive as a species, it's not going to be because we can homogenize all our lives, it's going to be because we don't build on flood plains.

Not UBI but just a new medium of exchange or rewards or some form of incentive that is based in NATURE and natural laws. That is a new economic system that IS TOTALLY 100% different from the current economic system.