Yang was named a Presidential Ambassador of Global Entrepreneurship and a Champion of Change by the White House and one of Fast Company's '100 Most Creative People in Business.' He was also named to the National Advisory Council for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the Department of Commerce. Yang has been the CEO, co-founder or executive at a number of technology and education companies. cities to generate job growth and train the next generation of entrepreneurs. Yang proposes that UBI is an essential step toward a new, more durable kind of economy, one he calls 'human capitalism.'Īndrew Yang is the founder of Venture for America, a major non-profit that places top college graduates in start-ups for two years in emerging U.S. At this vision's core is Universal Basic Income, the concept of providing all citizens with a guaranteed income-and one that is rapidly gaining popularity among forward-thinking politicians and economists. In The War on Normal People, Yang imagines a different future - one in which having a job is distinct from the capacity to prosper and seek fulfillment. The future looks dire-but is it unavoidable? The consequences are these trends are already being felt across our communities in the form of political unrest, drug use, and other social ills. Rapidly advancing technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and automation software are making millions of Americans' livelihoods irrelevant. In The War on Normal People, Andrew Yang paints a dire portrait of the American economy. In a future marked by restlessness and chronic unemployment, what will happen to American society? One recent estimate predicts 13 million American workers will lose their jobs within the next seven years-jobs that won't be replaced. The shift toward automation is about to create a tsunami of unemployment.

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