Elon Musk And Andrew Yang Support UBI - Is America Ready?
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- Universal basic income (or UBI) is a key part of Andrew Yang's campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. On Monday, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted his support for Yang's candidacy. Musk and Yang have stated similar views on the need for universal basic income in the United States.
A main tenet of Yang's campaign platform is his pledge to provide $1,000 a month to all American citizens 18 and older. Yang refers to this payment as a "Freedom Dividend" that will become necessary as robots and automation replace humans more rapidly than people can find and be retained for new jobs.
UBI is making its way from the fringes to a serious topic of debate thanks to a growing number of high profile advocates, including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Richard Branson, and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang. So far, the results of some UBI experiments have been controversial. Is America ready for universal basic income?
** UPDATE ** Andrew Yang’s campaign reached out to us on August 16th to clarify that the Freedom Dividend would stack with Social Security and Veteran's Disability: According to Yang's plan, veterans with a disability will continue to receive benefits on top of the Freedom Dividend. Social Security retirement and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits will also stack with the Freedom Dividend. Those receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI), another form of disability benefit, would have to choose between SSI or the Freedom Dividend whichever is more generous.
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Elon Musk And Andrew Yang Support UBI - Is America Ready?
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It is not free money. It's a redistribution of our country's wealth where the average American can finally get a tiny slice of that pie
Better yet, “it’s capitalism in which people’s income doesn’t start at zero” Andrew Yang. Basic economy 101, big companies sucking up economy-> average Americans gets less-> people spends less-> inhibits economy. One grand/month for all-> increase money circulation-> good economy.
It's a dividend for being a sharehilder of America. Like owing stock in a company that give out DIVIDEND to its shareholders when it performs well.
Exactly!!! Wealth gap is too big. RICH reinvesting their wealth. Working POOR overworking to no avail. Poverty poor stay Poor.
And we Deserve All of that Money 💰 as citizens 💯%
@Fred Davis Everybody gets the citizen shareholder dividend, it is not welfare.
Andrew Yang: I'm going to give everyone $1000 a month
Haters: Oh, so people are not going to work now.
Try living on $12k a year and see how that goes.
stupidmg I’m single and in the south so I could do it lol.
James
Have fun being below the poverty line lol
I counted it as $100 for my third world country. Our typical pension is around $60 and nearly all people stop working right at the moment they get it.
Even those who are healthy find important reasons why them leaving work isn’t because they don’t want to work
@Ride the Wave Do you consider Democracy Dollars foolish too? *eyeroll*
@Ride the Wave It won't come from taxpayers, it will come from the uber wealthy who use our data to enrich themselves.
a thousand dollars a month is basically like working a part-time job for minimum wage. all the people saying that this would make people lazy should try and work a minimum wage job part-time and see if they could support a family.
Nancy.. I completely agree! I would save for several years at a time to use for emergency funds. If you save for 3 years that’s $36,000 in your account! To me that’s ultimate peace of mind and security. Also if you know how to invest that would be even better.
So instead of working two jobs I can now work one and spend the free time and money on school or family. Why is this so wrong?
Minimum wage is not designed to raise a family or provide a living. Wage. That is not the point of it. It never has been. A teenager living in their parents household does not need a living wage. A bag boy at a grocery does not deserve a living wage for the minimal work they do. Living wage and minimum wage should not be mistaken for the same thing.
@Nancy Wong It doesent help. UBI is a statement of low expectations. Give a man a fish teach a man to fish.
@Nancy Wong The middle class is demonized when they think taking money from others is their right...Like taking enough money to supply 1000 for every american is just something we can vote on and the theft is okay.
"If this dude can unite a TH-cam comment section, he can unite a country."
Very good point.
If I can see this comment 700 times, I can surely see it 701 times
I counted over 30 comments in support of Yang and/or UBI before I read a single comment against. On TH-cam. TH-cam comments, almost universally known for their toxic, adversarial, argumentative tone. If he fails, it won't be be for lack of popular support.
Good joke
The Indian national Congress party did try this trick in 2019 general elections in India and failed miserably 😂. Same thing will happen don't worry.
The government had no problem bailing out the banks for 4 trillion dollars but when it comes to paying the citizens, for some reason now they don't have the money
Well the government wasn't doing it for free, the banks had to pay the government back, so in the end, the government got their money back. AIG, for example, finished paying off the government's $182 billion bailout in 2013.
With UBI, it's a different story.
logician32 gaming If the government hadn’t bailed out the banks it could’ve catalyzed into crushing America’s economy. Be glad the government bailed out the banks.
@@hansel1611 government is doing it for free.. what happened in 2008-2009 the government lend money to Banks at no interest so they won't crash.. and they want the banks to lend consumer money to increase consumption.. but you know what these banks did? They use the money us government gave them to buy US bonds.. to put it in English, it means US lend money to Banks at no interest, then banks immediately lend the money back to the government at an interest..
They play all the tricks saying Ubi is not an American idea. Socialists all that crap.. but in reality they have been giving away tax payers money to these big institutions which the US government calls it too big to fail
@@hansel1611 With Ubi that money will circulate through the economies and through business and find its way right back into the government so that argument is inconclusive at best.
Funny how money is only ever an issue when it comes to helping people. never a problem when its tax cuts for the rich or wars
And funny how "Will they go to work?" "What will they do with the money?" only happens when it's citizens asking for a dividend. When its a blue chip company distributing dividends to shareholders nobody seems to care.
Preach
@@achrafael1895 And funny how when economics says 'trickle down' doesnt work and they are still going ahead without giving people chance to read over it, even congress. That's what we are dealing with now, a sleeping government.
Ach Rafael do you understand what a shareholder is
Noone asked where the money would come from when it was the bailouts of wall street and the big banks.
Mr. Yang.. give us a piece of that delicious Amazon pie!!
Inthepocket01 vote for him and it’s all yours brother!
why do you deserve access to money someone else earned?
@Nuno Filipe then you make them pay their taxes not going around demanding what isnt yours...
power house inco they use our data to start ads
@@Vengeance_02 which you agree to...
Bailing out General Motors or Wallstreet for Billions of Dollars: nobody bats an eye
Giving citizens 1000 Dollars a Month: Everyone goes crazy
What a mess of a world we live in
or Chrysler for that matter
Wall street needs the money to speculate more. Also it's trillions.
You must have missed all the eyes.
the goverment got paid back for the bailout and in fact made money as it was loan.
@@shaneviola8848 and what do you think putting the money in the peoples hands does? U think people will just burn it for heat?
UBI cannot give anyone meaning in life. But UBI CAN FACILITATE People finding meaning in life.
If I may also add....ASK NOT 1K CAN DO FOR YOU...ASK WHAT YOU WILL DO WITH 1K.
I think people keeping all their earnings would facilitate finding purpose. Being extorted by the state, having your money shuffled around, and then being given other's money (like it's from the sky) sounds stupid and laborious.
The crucial point that Jordan Peterson ignores
People need Resource
I keep hearing the UBI doesn't give people meaning...well neither does a job really. Some people hate their jobs and or their boss if they didnt need to put food on the table they leave without a second thought.
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I'm not even an american but very intrigued about this guy and his policies, I cannot wait to see how the election goes
I'm a freelance audio engineer who would be able to market to 10x more clients, replace failing outdated gear, and have some safety net for my health with this kind of support from my President.
Artists for Andrew Yang!
this will boost a lot of freelancers 😲
As a freelance concept artist and character modeler, I endorse this view.
I’m interested in getting into this field, what state are you in?
Editor and photographer here, completely agree!
We need to create initiatives now.
People: "im not for giving people 1000 a month"
Also people: "it's fine if we give corporate companies millions a year."
Billions
Oh come now! I'm sure no one's that stupid!
They are both wrong.....
@Mtpimenta That's some Nazi thinking right there. Also, it's not even true. There are smart people who never got their chance because their families couldn't afford proper education. People who had to become another source of income to keep their families afloat. Some times they end up successful but most of the time they end up exactly where their parents were because they couldn't go to school and make something of themselves.
V K absolute straw man
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Please stop trying to redistribute wealth and running deficits.
@@f0real9 The Freedom Dividend is revenue-neutral. It does however redistribute wealth from business-to-business transactions and the top 6% of earners to the bottom 94%. Poor and middle-class Americans would see their purchasing power increase by about $10,000/year on average. Contrast this with the Trump tax cuts, which increased the deficit and expires the cuts for the bottom 95% of earners in 2025 while leaving the cuts in-place for the top 5%. The government is already giving out handouts on a deficit, but they're only for the rich.
@@f0real9 It's much best distributed to the most corrupt people in the country like Wall Street and Lobbyists.
America may not be ready but once we all lose our jobs to machines then we'll wish we had it.
@@jayk3551 People should learn skills and get jobs that can never be replaced with automation. Automation can never replace critical thinking and creativity. But automation can (and will) replace menial jobs like cashiers, drivers, etc.
Never seen a robot entrepreneur
@@JohnLee-fr6pi www.memekingz.net/meme/593 that's better
Ok and why would we need it now
@Keith Panton What's wrong with having an entire system full of thinkers? Then we'd all be able to contribute to society
Alaska is doing well. You hear no complaints from the people. I had a friend who came to our Church in California to visit grandma. He said how do you think I came over to visit. It just make life easy and I can breath because my wife can stay home and take care of our baby. What can you say.
@Daniel Elvis Atwater stop it we have money for wars but can't help the poor. Lol. 25% of the military budget will give everyone 1000 a month.
Flex I swear you just quoted Tupac lol
@@adrieI 😁 from keep ya head up
alaska is not doing well check again
@@flex8707 uh i guess military is kinda important.
Stressed out people who say UBI is too good for us are people who need UBI the most. Don't let people hold you down! Yang 2020
But what if the prices change, why if houses become more expensive, we will need more houses and more resources to burn. Universal neccesities shouldn't be susceptible of the market
@@martillodelajusticia7211 UBI will make people more mobile because it's easier to move if you have an extra income. Most people will try to find cheaper more rural areas to live because living basically rent free is a sweet deal and others will want to live in the city because before they couldn't afford. If rent spikes then people will just leap again because now they have that freedom. The more mobile people are the more competitive housing prices are going to be which will drive prices down.
"UBI is capitalism on steroids"
Also we have enough vacant houses, the problem is some people can't afford them.
@@fan8706 repoblating rural areas can be an environmental problem if they aren't prepare for the level of consumption that the people in cities are used to. Also, do you have data to back up what you said? ¿maybe studies in what happend in finland and Alaska?
Other topic: Does ubi need constant economicsl grow or could happen as result of bosting capitalism? Because tou can optimize the production all you want, as long as consumerism and population grow is going to exist a problem
@@martillodelajusticia7211 If they can't handle the load then they'll raise the price so people would look else where. Alaska is like 1k a year but it has positive results and I think Finland is small scale right? All ubi experiments I know of has been positive. South Korea is doing one right now from what I hear.
The money will be from taxes. The rich will pay more the middle class will get a discount on their taxes and the poor will benefit from it. A bunch of people with lower income can shift money around better than stock traders and it will go back to the rich once the money is spent which will expand the economy. Instead of trickle down it's "trickle up".
WE need initiatives now.. not wait for government.
A few things this video did not address:
1. In the Finland study, only a small group of people recieved money and no one else. So when you say that these people didn't see a rise in employment it's not surprising. The UBI wasn't implemented on a scale that was large enough to create new jobs. If you look at the Roosevelt institute's study of Andrew Yang's UBI proposal, because it goes to everyone, it's estimated to create 2million+ jobs. It's also imperative to point out that just about every one in the Finland study reported higher levels of things like happiness and mental wellbeing.
2. In all of these studies the money runs out at the end unlike actual UBI. People behave differently when they know the money will stop coming in. They act more like squirrels stashing nuts than people living their day to day lives.
3. The comment about "if you are able to work you should have a job" does not take into consideration work that does not pay like mothers who take care of their children or children who take care of their elderly parents. UBI essentially gives people the ability to define what meaningful work is instead of some government agency. Your economics degree does not give you the right to tell me or any American how to live.
This is the biggest hurdle: convincing older generations, who only think of traditional jobs as work, that other work is valuable, meaningful, and beneficial to society even if it doesn't result in a paycheck.
You should check "Answer with Joe"' on UBI. He also brings in another study of American Native Tribe similar UBI program, which has longer and more extensive study.
The main point is they make video like this to confuse people on the idea of UBI, (the power-that-be or deep state is scare of Yang or his idea that will enlighten the public). Quoting those so called studies that were not really implementing it to it's basic fundamental idea of being universal and rolled out as a welfare benefit rather than an universal stimulus. You can see any programs that follow the fundamental idea brings good & positive results. Hence they avoid talking about Alaska and not mentioning it because they try to make it seems it is a random & radical idea that's not been tested or have mixed results. If only people learned about the art of propaganda, they will see how long they've been lie to by those so called trusted information channels or talking heads/officials.
If its not "universal", its not really UBI
@Blackbeard it was not unconditional
@Blackbeard That's right, too low amount and too few people to have any network effect
It's like a startup. If you have enough funding to reach profitability, you work to make it happen. If you don't have enough, you blow the money on booz instead. Having enough funds to bridge the gap to breakthrough is key.
Simply put it this way, the current US political situation...
1. Andrew Yang, Objective, Clear-minded, Problem-solving, Human-oriented entrepreneur who has sensible solutions on all issues
vs.
2. Politicians who have no clue on real issues, too busy digging up the dirt of others, or have outdated solutions
vs.
3. A criminal President.
Now...
Choose...
I am 100% yang supporter, but I do believe Bernie isn't in any of criteria. He is more of 4. A politician who works for people but with 20th century solution.
I respect Bernie, but his $15 minimum wage is outdated... Not only it will make the local stores harder to survive, most importantly, automation will take over jobs that no one can benefit from even with higher minimum wage. What about those that working at home as care givers, like Andrew Yang's wife and kids example... So he is within the 2nd category in my opinion...
Yang all the way. Gotta vote in primaries.
Explain how Trump is a criminal president
I smell bias... sniff sniff
Americans are so used to paying everyone except for themselves. take some money. you've earned it for participating in this amazing country
Americans rallied against universal healthcare. Does that tell you something?
Amazing country lmfao
@@CoachChaoZ Because USA big bad
If we wait until everyone in America is ready, it will be too late.
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We need to stop seeing ubi as a government handout but as a return on Trillions of dollars in taxpayer investments in tech and pharma.
It's not a govt handout its theft. It's taxpayer money being given to lazy slobs who refuse to work or adapt.
Ride the Wave as opposed to the hundreds of billions in corporate tax subsidies? Yes better to give taxpayer money to the super rich rather than putting back into the real economy.
Brilliant regurgitation of Fox Views.
#RobertBritt What about pay back for wasting taxpayers ' money, for investing trillions of our money on explosives while our country deteriorate, for all the corporate crooks who stole money and/or lied about costs, and what you said too.
Robert Britt hundreds of billions? www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/policy-basics-where-do-our-federal-tax-dollars-go so if they are 2% of the other category, which is highly unlikely and probably much lower, but assuming that it’s $8 B that would fund ubi for a week... that’s literally comparing apples to oranges dude
Ryan M factor in the costs of military protection of oil company assets, the costs of lax restrictions on offshoreing profits and international banking and l think that # is much larger.
If I had had a UBI of 1000$ when I was having children, I could of stayed home, and raised them myself, instead of dragging them form babysitter to babysitter!
That in itself would help many families could lower crime having parents at home can keep children out of trouble.
"The idea that we will turn career manufacturing workers into computer engineers is absurd " love it. Andrew Yang 2020!
Not really, I know an electrician who went through half a year course and landed a pretty decent QA job. It really depends on a person. Many people find IT to be extremely boring, and don't go there for that reason.
Problem is though, that most testing will eventually be automated too.
@@AlexEnglishBeatles What is QA?
David Bustamante quality assurance - testing programs
@@AlexEnglishBeatles Say that to the people above 30 with already more than enough going on in their homes. They won't have the time to learn a completely new career at that age while taking care of their kids and working 2 different jobs to keep their family above the poverty line
What about the Alaska? They've had UBI for almost 40 years.
If you really think videos like this or most thing from the MSM are meant to inform you rather than propaganda, you will be in a big surprise. Viewers or the general public are not the customers for the MSM. Corporations or sponsors are. We are merely their products.
@@TruthHurts1871 The video at least ended on a good note, Yang definitely explains how his UBI is calculated much better than people who speak on general UBI.
Fred Davis right, but at least the Freedom Dividend would only be given to citizens.
I’m from Alaska, and I’m for Yang, however I wouldn’t call our Permanent Fund Dividend a Universal Basic Income. I know that’s how people refer to it, but it’s really just like a bonus check once a year.
@Fred Davis For your worries, Yang has proposal for path to citizenship, they have to pay social programs for 18 years with no criminal record to be qualify. and if they come in as completely illegal, they are definitely paying more than using...
No Automation without Compensation
Andrew Yang for President 2020
Humanity First! Freedom Dividend!
If people are worried about automation, learn skills to make yourself valuable and irreplacable by machines. Things like creativity and critical thinking will never be replaced by automation. On the otherhand, jobs like cashiers, factory assembly line workers, drivers, etc. are soon going to be automated.
That's a great slogan :)
@@hansel1611 Problem is millions of americans will not be able to make this shift.
@@hansel1611 Another thing, you have to understand, not all people are born in the same starting line. If US is strongest country in the world and all they do is spending money on wars. But when it comes to help american people, it's a big nono. Then it's pretty sad story.
@@hansel1611 There is almost nothing a human can do that an AI with advanced robotics will not be able to do in the next fifty years, and that's being generous. AI is already beginning to create artwork and music. There are ongoing legal battles in several countries to allow an AI to be named as the inventor on patents. No magic quality exists that humans have a monopoly on. Before the invention of the microprocessor, that would have been true for intelligence, but it is no longer.
Boomers have a tough time understanding that the work is quickly disappearing. They aren't used to the idea of quick change and don't understand the impacts of exponential change over time. It used to take decades to see noticeable change in society from technology. Now, technology can have widespread impact in a much shorter amount of time, and the time it takes to impact the country/world is shrinking all the time. Jobs lost to automation per year will increase every year, meaning far more jobs will be lost in 2020 compared to 2019, and the change between 2030 and 2029 would dwarf that figure. Boomers can't comprehend the idea that the world is changing faster than a society can adapt. These facts are why we need UBI.
Boomers dont need to understand. They will be one foot in the grave by 2040 or dead(for the older boomers). For them, keeping the status quo benefits them, hence the way they are reacting to this problem.
Kurt Brown this is why young people must vote
then why is America experiencing the lowest levels of unemployment in decades (source: CNN)?
Richard Dunn I had the same question... But I think it may be due to independent contractor work like with Uber, or being self-employed? (Many of those driver jobs are thought to be at risk over the next decade with self-driving cars on the horizon. Why would companies like Uber want to share revenue with drivers if they can soon invest in self-driving cars to keep all profits to themselves, as an example.)
Meanwhile, most available entry level jobs don’t pay enough, and eat up the greatest resource:time. Since people have to work a lot just to get a little, people don’t have time for learning new skills for higher paying work.
Independent contractor /self employment work isn’t much better, though, since there are no benefits for long term sustainability. It’s like being stuck in limbo, but still counts as employed.
I’m self-employed because I get more for my time doing so, but it was definitely a stressful transition that ate up my credit cards until I started making enough not to need them to feed myself. Now I am struggling to pay those debts back, and am taking coding classes in my free time(the hardest thing I’ve ever tried to learn lol). Hopefully in a year I can transition into higher paying tech work (and have health care again).
Boomers have a stronger understanding of machine replacement than you think considering this has been an issue since the 1800s
Why does the American Dream and Universal Basic Income have to be mutually exclusive, as if the latter threatens the former?
Right
Because UBI would require large taxes making it harder to be successful
America might not be ready?
Ask the 77% of Americans that are living pay check to pay check
If that number is accurate, it is because most of those people live above their means. Giving them more money to squander isn't going to fix that.
And UBI - would just increas that to 99% of american living from pay check to pay check, and 77%+ that couldnt even feed their own children or afford anything beside basic items needed for survial.
johnnyroyal48 you don’t think prices will go up to offset the UBI?
A lot of those Americans aren't living like that because of their income. They are living like that because of financial illiteracy, going to a school they can't afford, credit cards, not saving, etc. They just aren't smart enough to avoid debt and save.
But ask those 77% how many would vote for Yang
Just watched yang on joe rogan podcast, h3h3, and breakfast club. This dude seems to be a problem solver rather than a politician.
Turned 18 this July and this dude has my vote. (And I supported trump)
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Same thing i thought.. the only candidate with a fully thought out plan and not a talking head
The smartest and most future thinking people pretty much agree, UBI is good.
Doesn't mean they are right or that it is good policy. There were some smart people 40 years ago that was crying about overpopulation, peak oil and doom of the world.
Andrew Gisler the world is overpopulated though.
@@agisler87 I can't see how providing a solid financial floor for everyone at a basic level is in any way a bad thing? Why is sharing the country's wealth amongst its people so looked down apon? I mean what is a country without its people?
In my mind a UBI is 20 years overdue. Get rid of all welfare systems and just give a flat rate which will cover basics. The fear of starvation and destitution as motivation for work has no place in a civilised 21st century society. The urge to work should be out of inspiration, not terror.
@@Syklonus Its looked down upon because a country doesn't have wealth, only individuals. To share means you must forcefully take wealth from individuals to give to others. Personally I believe getting rid of the entire welfare state we would have far greater amount of charity in this country and the money would be used much more efficient then any government program.
"Get rid of all welfare systems and give flat rate". I think this is actually a very good argument for UBI. It reduces the welfare bureaucracy which is more efficient and allows people freedom to spend the money without strings attached.
But if we are going to implement UBI because of unsupported fear of mass unemployment from automation then I'm 100% against.
@@gen2963 It's expected the world population will max out a little less then 11 billion people and then eventually drop to about 9 billion.
Overpopulation was only a concerned because people believed there would be mass food shortages, which hasn't even remotely happened.
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Could end homelessness and starvation, those 2 reasons should be good enough. Give people some dignity to get back on their feet. Yang 2020! ~from a welder replaced by a robot.
@@SciloMendez The VAT tax will be on 'wants' not 'needs' - weighted towards luxuries. It's only meant to provide a minimum foundation under people of food and a roof (M4A will provide the health care). Anything more than pure basics, and you'll need to work. For those whose jobs are being replaced by technology, it will enable you to go back to school, retrain or start self employment.
Could, only if banning homeless and starvation. Homeless isn't solely a money issue, but includes things like mental health, medical expenses, family structure. Starvation is driven by choice to spend money not on food but on non food items. Americans are so fat, there's little issue of starvation here. Go to Somalia in the 80's if you want to understand what starvation looks like
@@tmmsplace UBI isn't Yangs only solution for starters. He has over 160 policies, about a dozen of which address issues that UBI would HELP solve. This isn't a one size fits all problems, there are several add-on solutions he has planned to coincide with UBI, like bringing administrator costs down on school to help reduce the cost of education and school debt, as one example.
I can't stand arguing with people who try to dismiss someones ideas and solutions without actually doing research or reading their research first. And this is coming from someone who wen't in depth on Bernie's policies AND Trumps. I didn't vote for Trump (Nor do I like him as a human being in general) but I did give some of his ideas a chance when I looked into them. He just did them all wrong with an added touch of racism...
Cogent Media obviously Jeff Bezos, the richest man on earth wouldn’t be moaning about UBI when he makes as much as he does, and I guarantee you wouldn’t be able to get as far as him if you simply tried hard, explain why you aren’t a billionaire then bud
Cogent Media also without the UBI, you are left with 0k over those 4 years plus the 30k that have to come out of nowhere, so UBI is definetly helpful, do your research and try to make sense of what you are saying next time buddy
Tired of hearing the people work less argument. Only 2 groups of people worked less when given a UBI new mothers and kids in college who graduated at higher levels.
I've been working 6 days a week for 2 years also donating plasma 2 twice a week for 6 years for extra money if I got ubi I for a fact would stop working Saturdays and stop donating if I was smart I guess I wouldn't stop but it is extremely exhausting and I get almost no time for myself or family and I only do it for the money Its safe to say that for a lot of Americans out there if ubi were to happen they would stop doing all those things they do for extra money or to borrow money if they spend wisely no more overtime, loans, credit cards or donations what about pawn shops they make most money off pawns because interest most people wouldn't have to pawn things anymore you probably dont work hard enough now to understand people would definitely work less and reward themselves for the hard work long hours they already are doing with the ubi and have more time for themselves probably go on vacation every month I dont know right now if ubi would do more harm or good
Bs.. If you give 1000 bucks alot of people who are working will not work. Or will work less.
@@muhannedk6763 BS.. 1000 bucks a month will pay one or two bills for most Americans. That's enough to relieve some stress, but not nearly enough to live on, unless you want to live in a tent in the woods.
@@muhannedk6763 1000 bucks a month means i dont have to work a 2nd full time job in order to survive. or, my girlfriend that is a diabetic could get all the medical supplies she needs and i can be with her for longer and not have to worry about her not taking her insulin and dying... so yes, in a way people will work less, but i dont see going from 60+ hours a week to 40 hours a week as a problem. and you will always have that small % that will take advantage of the system and not do anything, like they do with food stamps, and other gov assistance programs. but should the 95% of us be punished for what maybe 5% of people might do?
@@muhannedk6763 UBI is better than welfare. Which do you think cause more unemployment? Giving people money when they don't have a job or giving money regardless. I knew people that didn't work or worked less because it would push them over a threshold for a welfare program they really needed (Financial aid). These people I knew would take a job if a UBI opt-in program instead of welfare. They need money, but they also want to work and be dignified.
UBI means getting paid by the government NOT for nothing but for being replaced by a robot.
More like: UBI means getting your money back. Everyone's paying their taxes. It's the people's money.
UBI will create awe-inspiring levels of entrepreneurship.
Lol, dont lie to yourself.
More like It will create closets full of Jordans...
You are right along with helping teachers pay for school supplies.
@@gc1087 people buy and are gifted Jordan already. The thing is not every can instant buy it nor want to buy them. People will always buy materialistic things no matter what. Gifts for themselves , gifts for loved ones , deceased ones , their dogs extended family members etc.
Of course you guys interview Krugman to be the anti UBI guy. On Twitter a while back, he denied that automation taking jobs was even a problem at all. Yikes!
Typical modern media cherry picking information to their own benefits
They also left out the study done in the us in the 60s and also how it passed the house twice
@@IfWhatYes Or how about the UBI in Kuwait in that same year, where everybody got $4k and free food from a cut of oil revenue, and there was no inflation, despite the naysayers doomsday prophecies. www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/comments/2ioovd/kuwait_gave_almost_4000_to_every_citizen_in_2011/
Krugman also thought the Internet was basically a fad on the same level as fax machines...
It's not free money. It's freedom. It's not money for nothing. It's money for anything. UBI is the power to say no and the freedom to say yes. No action is consensual without the power to refuse that action and not be punished with poverty as a result. No one is free to do the work that matters most until they can afford to do that work. The most valuable work of all tends to be unpaid. UBI recognizes that. It makes sure that everyone can afford to do unpaid or low paid work if that's important to them, or they can choose to demand higher pay for the work they don't really want to do but what they know needs to be done. All of this also means that automation can be embraced instead of feared. If there's half as much paid work available, then we could all work half as much and be just as employed. We can set a goal of 20-hour weeks for all, where everyone can choose to work more if they like, or they can choose to spend their time in more meaningful ways, let the robots do the work, and share the paychecks the robots aren't getting, instead of letting those paychecks only go to the owners of the machines, with nothing flowing to the displaced workers. UBI is how we make technology work for everyone. Andrew Yang is the only candidate who recognizes that truth.
UBI = Finally Ending Wage Slavery
You didn't work for it!!
Wow - great thots in great prose ... robots not gettin paychecks ... indeed ...
I think it is misleading to call it *free* or *money*.
Money is a tool to regulate and re-distribute limited resources. Human beings add value through work to human society and money is a way to put a value to that work. But in the future, this work can be done by robots, let's take it to an extreme. Imagine automation taking over everything like in the Jetsons in 80s or 90s and able to feed the world, technically, everything should be free and money will be meaningless.
But we are in the middle... robots will be able to do a lot of work but not everything and we are in an age where there are surplus, but there are also scarcity and limited resources. UBI is the transition before money becomes meaningless... where we can afford to give some things away for free, but not all, so people still has to work for some other things.
So we give away some things in the form of UBI, but people still have to work to provide for other things.
The issue in future when everything can be automated and surplus is enough for everyone, then what? Will those who owns the robots want to control supply and make the rest bow down to them and claim moral and social superiority? Or will they give it away freely knowing that there is only so much they can consume anyway and they can afford to give away everything else? Or will those human beings who aren't "contributing" (because there is nowhere to "contribute" since robots have taken over everything) be made to go extinct?
This is the question which will decide the future.
UBI to me, does not require justification or debate. It is a natural outcome of what our future will be.
Well said!!!
PLease Mr. Yang make it so, you had me at everybody.
Same.
same. It is so important.
States should be able to pay UBI since Amazon makes trillions of dollars yet they don’t get taxed
Talk to anyone on the bottom 75% of this country and ask them directly, would $1000 a month have significant positive change in their life. You already know the answer to that.
it's 94% of the population that would gain ^^.
with those extra money cooperate are more happier, because more available money in market.Unless keep buying china stuff, then ubi doom to fail
@@abdielneris4957 The economy collapses when a majority of the jobs are automated away and there is no money left circulating.
@@abdielneris4957 And we suffered while going through that adaptation phase and that is why UBI is necessary, it will cushion the blow as we adapt to automation. Most people who looses their job won't get different types of job, it is the people who come after who will get different jobs and those people who lost jobs will suffer forever as their skills are no longer required.
@@abdielneris4957 Dude, no one is going to live off of 1000 dollars a month. That doesn't even cover a third of my rent. It's at most a strong supplement for non-wealthy people, but by no means are individuals going to be able to survive off of just $1000 without getting some kind of job. The only group of people I can imagine may stop working as much are college students who really shouldn't be working in the first place. They should be focusing on their education and can pursue their careers afterwards. Some people with two or three jobs may also find it possible to drop one of them, which again, is not a bad thing. No one should really be working that much, and the position can be filled by someone else who may be unemployed.
*UBI > $15/hr minimum wage*
1. $12k/year *not tied to a job - meaning you have more time and money*, offering you the freedom to pursue what you want
2. Stay-at-home parents, teachers and others making more than $15/hour would not benefit from the minimum wage boost.
3. Small businesses will struggle to gain and pay new employees, big businesses don't have this problem.
Just to name a few!
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100% agree I make double min wage and if min wage goes to $15 My wage will not double. It will stay the same. So my education will not give me a boost as it should. I could quit my job and work at WalMart and make either the same or more because of this. Yes, min wage needs to go up but slowly over many years. In the meant time UBI would help fill the gaps and help those who aren't or can't work.
@@ilovemylukie Thanks for sharing Wendy! Indeed, many people would feel disheartened when a job that pays half as much and requiring less responsibilities/skills is now being paid the same.
There is also the problem with the morality of employers. When the minimum wage was raised. What many businesses did was cut their workers hours. Even the top employers of these companies saw their hours cut though the change was not as significant for them. Employers then started demanding workers produce more even in cases where the weekly pay had been cut to lower than before the minimum wage increase. This also caused employers to stop hiring less qualified people. These employers are in direct opposition to Christian values.
@@lanceknightmare Just like Bernie Sanders to cut his staff's hours to pay minimum wages lol. It showed his plan didn't work.
Minium wage still 7.25 in my state
Andrew Yang.
It's not about moving left or moving right. It's about moving forward.
If Andrew Yang win. All Americans win.#YangGang2020
This could potentially decrease crime as instead of commuting crime, the criminal supplements it with ubi
And improve mental health.
It's also an incentive to stay out of jail/prison. It also cost less than paying for their incarceration.
@@andresbarriga5305 It would certainly help my mental health, I know that for sure.
So much weight off my shoulders just thinking about it...
The most empathetic and pragmatic candidate of the election. If this is your first time hearing about Andrew Yang and his UBI proposal; check out his podcasts with Joe Rogan, Sam Harris and the Breakfast Club. He'll blow your mind. #YangGang
He also has a new one on the H3 podcast
AND Ben Shapiro
He even did an extended interview with Ben Shapiro, which you should check out as well.
The only Dem candidate willing to talk openly, long form, with anyone.
yup. Tells you how confident he is in his ideas that he will talk to anyone about them, for extended periods of time, while the rest prefers those awful, meaningless sound bite interviews with pre-selected anchors.
Love being in the Yanggang. He’s the only one understands our current issues and have solutions!
if we are "born with debt" then we should be "born with ubi"
exactly, but they want to implement it for when you turn 18
Nobody is born with debt! What the heck. Your parents MIGHT have debt you are not responsible for.
Known Boston The US national debt is nearly $23,000,000,000,000. You are paying that debt off via income tax.
omg youre right
Known Boston actually yeah but when my son was born the bills had my sons name and address on the envelope so technically speaking yeh you’re born with debt. The doctors are also helping bring you into the world and they have to treat you at the hospital after your born so yeh duh you’re born with debt. Nothing is free in this world not even for a baby.
Lol, many people have misunderstood UBI.
UBI is needed because of automation. It's a necessity. Whether people work or don't work , it doesn't matter . UBI is definitely needed because we don't know wat automation and AI will do to JOB AVAILABILITY.
I did the math and it would end up costing around 2.5-3 trillion dollars a year in gross costs, which would double national spending. But you also have to take into consideration the cut to costs in welfare programs, but we "only" spend 500-600 bil in that area so that cannot fund UBI. Then comes the VAT and the trickle up argument, but that's just a theory. I'm just wondering how we'd pay for it and how effective a VAT would actually be.
@@clateyclatey114897 In most urban centers $1000/month isn't close to enough to pay rent and utilities let alone other basic necessities such as food but it is enough to get both Republican and Democrats all riled up. If it was enough to get people off the street and living a life of dignity, there would be a boost in tax income and a huge reduction in addiction and addiction related deaths and a reduction in crime and drug dealing that would equal a massive benefit to the social structure and a decrease in the cost of policing, courts and incarceration. It could easily be paid for by a tax on wall street market transactions of less than 1% or it could be paid by creating a wealth tax of less than 1% on people with a net worth of over 1 billion dollars or it could be paid for with a sales tax of less that 1% on military equipment sales or it could be paid for by closing half of the nearly 1000 military bases around the world that threaten every country in the world and make them all hate America. Even the people who live in countries with American bases hate America let alone the countries that American missiles are aimed at. Or it could be partially paid for just by the taxes that would be collected as the recipients spend all of that money which certainly wouldn't be enough for them to hide it in offshore banks. Paying for it would be no problem at all. Getting it passed would be the problem.
@@RonzigtheWizard It's better than nothing. After all, this is merely a step in the right direction. As a Libertarian, I know automation will replace most, if not all of the low skilled jobs. So why not? Let's allow companies to do this. If UBI is implemented correctly, we could potentially have a consumption class where people simply consume products all day. If that's the case, it'll be better than the Socialists revolting again.
@@JokerReaperComedy It isn't just low paid jobs that will be replaced with AI, they are planning on replacing human lawyers, doctors, engineers and accountants as well. If UBI is done right, you are right that a consumer economy will replace the work based economy sort of like Star Trek. People will work at careers that interest them because of their interests, not because they need to earn a living. That type of economy is closer than anyone thinks and the main thing holding it back is not technology but a society that wants to cling to an obsolete system that has abused a poverty class for as long as we have any record of society.
King Vlastimir It would be around 3 trillion, and we already paid 1.2 trillion on social services. So it would be around 1.8. It would create new tax revenue, and more jobs which also adds to around 400 billion worth of taxes. Then you look at how it lowers rates of crime and things like that, cause think about it. A criminal on the edge is going to risk their free $1000 for something? Probably not. The rest would be compiled from some other areas as well as the VAT. Look up Andrew Yang and watch one of his full discussions, he breaks it down.
If I had learned anything in life, it is to do the opposite of Paul Krugman's advices.
For the young folks out there, this was the guy who claimed that internet and google will have no greater influence on economy than fax machine.
As a Libertarian, wait no. Actually, as a normal person, that guy seems a bit out of touch with the times!
WHAT
5:12 Fun fact: Back in the 90s, Paul Krugman claimed the internet’s effect on our economy would be no better than the fax machine’s. People should take his opinion with a tablespoon of salt.
More like a truck load
Thank you for that delightful piece of information.
And of course NONE from MSM will ask Paul Krugman about that. We have to rely on a commenter in a youtube video to learn that (thank you by the way).
hes a middle age white guy who probably doesnt even know how to turn on a computer
America, wake up and vote for Andrew Yang, a visionary !
#Yang2020 !
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It’s not FREE MONEY OR HANDOUT !!!!! It’s OUR MONEY !! Like being a shareholder in a company gives u dividend each month , similarly our tech companies etc our data everything that companies use and make profit we deserve the profit from that as it’s our DATA AND OUR TAX MONEY TOO in government!! So we deserve the profits as dividend
Whatever u do with that money is ur own choice !!! Use it , don’t use it , give it to charity , use it to do small business , whatever
This is clearly a hit piece on the idea of UBI. UBI can work, regardless of how much stockholders and billionaires hate it.
Have you done research on it or do you just hear free money and was like oh yeah I’m with that be honest
@@shadowwolf2809 Research, also spell check.
I'm a truck driver based out Phoenix AZ, and I go to Tucson AZ to make a delivery about 3 times a week. And I see the self driving trucks at least once or every 2 weeks. They're not self driving yet because there's always 2 people in their, but they're testing them. I see them more often now. Some people need to wake up to this.
Paul Krugman is almost as out of touch as Joe Biden.
This is the same guy that gave the banks bailouts.
This is the same guy that thought the internet was just a fad.
So true.👍
This was a hit job from CNBC. Paul Krugman believe Keynesian economics that says government should increase cash infusion to economy in order to stimulus economy. And now all the sudden, he said is bad idea? Also, Stiglizt, is the economist who keep writing books for inequality and he still says is bad idea. Bankers and Corporation are in full force now. They dont want to pay their shares. Now, you have Liberal Economists who preached for government stimulus, fight for inequality and still said UBI is bad idea. Big Boys dont care about little man. I'm done
He's been an economist with a ton of power and money for decades, there is no way he has any idea what is going on at a micro level in our economy or he is willingly oblivious to the growing income inequality in our country. "We can't do that because it would cost a lot of money" - NOT YANG's WAY! It's all payed for, baby, tax em and spread it!
I literally am stuggling to try to finish school while raking care of both of my ill parents, being an only child. A freedom dividend would help them and me exponentially and I'd be finally able to focus on getting my degree, building my portfolio, investing in stocks and supporting my parents even more!! YANG GANG 2020
Only disliked due to the biased slant against Yang in the piece
You got it all wrong. The purpose is for being a citizen. It’s the right of citizenship. We contribute so much to this country. It’s not a handout, it’s not for doing nothing.
It said most people would take the welfare those people dont contribute because they dont want to because if they do their benefits would be taken away so yeah it's for doing nothing for a lot of people. I know women with 3 or 4 kids that are living of the government with housing and food stamps because they had kids they cant take care of they work but not to much because those things would be taken away or reduced they have no motivation to work more or go to school to maybe get a better job your telling me irresponsible people like that should get more
Aaron Smith - you don’t make sense... the people on welfare have no choice but to never improve their lives because that’s the way welfare system is designed. Welfare has a scale of who they consider needs help. The moment you start to do better, whether getting just a dollar raise or pick up extra hours, welfare will take you off. That’s why people never improve their lives and they stay at the most minimal because welfare is designed to be that way. So you bet UBI is better.
@@pashvang5394 that's what I just said the people on welfare will not take the ubi cash but just get more welfare there on welfare to abuse the system because the government says we cant have irresponsible lazy people suffering
Aaron Smith - ok.
@@aarons6797 the UBI idea isn't for people stuck on welfare, i'm sure it will help out some but UBI is practically dedicated to the Lower-Middle class which is where the majority of Americans sit, living pay-check to pay-check, no welfare just an honest job with a low wage and going in debt for a sudden $500 dollar bill like a car issue or a hospital visit. These are the people it's aimed at.
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Paul Krugman "not politically possible" what does that even mean??
Tax increases aren't popular and it takes a ton of convincing to raise taxes
@@TheLightningZap Implementing a new form of tax like Yang said was not even mentioned. Income tax increase is not the central focus of his plan to pay for UBI.
I don't like Krugman he is a know it all. Yang is a futurist and is VERY in tune with the new frontier if AI and labor.
@@TheLightningZap *for corporations, raise the people's taxes is easier tho
The problem with the Canadian and Finnish pilots was that they weren’t actually universal. Canada’s money went only to low-income individuals and Finland gave money to only people who were already unemployed. They are not adequate models of the Freedom Dividend. Alaska and the Cherokee Indian dividend are much more representative. #yang2020
Alaska has the lowest median income in the country bar like 3 states and is decreasing in wealth. And Cherokee tribes have a lot of poverty and achlohol abuse.
And how does UBI for poor people not effect poor people in any tangible way (bar “feelings) but will somehow effect everybody if done on a wide scale. If it was going to have evidence to work on mass scale, it’d work small scale.
Yang gang aren’t very smart which is why you irrelevants aren’t even polling at 5% and will sit and watch TRUMP/PENCE WIN 2020.
KEEP AMERICA GREAT
Exactly what I wanted to say above.. these guys don't get it.
@@user-dn3fn3bg4l I had planned on writing you a friendly reply with nuanced explanations for those concerns, the I clicked "show more" and realized I'd be talking a brick wall.
Ky mick Finland is cheaper to live USA? Yeah right.
And the evidence against UBI is there, the evidence for apart from theoretical beliefs isn’t very much. Oh wow I’m more “happy” because I got a 1,000 dollars while no one around me did. If UBI is implemented (if Mitch McConnell is senate majority leader and somehow yang is president. Good luck on that passing the senate anyway), taxes would increase on everyone and cost of rent and living would increase. Unemployment numbers would increase and GDP would decrease. Our economy would be shot. If yang is president, I’m confident he’d be a one term president. But I’ll consider him, as an independent, AFTER trump and admin GET 2 TERMS OF MAKING AMERICAN GREAT AGAIN.
Jim. H the only brick wall are yang cultist. Who promptly always stop replying when they get pressed with facts they can’t handle.
But please do tell the nuance I’m missing when it comes to UBI. I want to see if it’s something actually original and worthy of discuss.
When Yang wins the primary, America will be ready for this. #Yang2020
We're late on this... an old American idea. We are late.
*Time to catch up!*
Is Amazon ready to pay taxes and stop automating jobs and putting other stores out of business?
Forward! Let’s go! Yang 2020
We need to get rid of the scarcity mind set AS SOON AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE !
exactly !
Spot on!!!
Scarcity is coming you fool
Scarcity mind is why humans are so savage
Except the world has limited resources, so it would be very hard if possible to get rid of
Chinese are people who love the family and love the peace of the world! He is the president of the United States and there will be no war! support him!
Alice Chen he’s taiwan
@@sagebreezy Taiwanese are ethnically Chinese...
Just “having a job” doesnt solve all the other problems
#Yang2020 he's the only one talking about problems AND solutions.
Finland thing is flawed, they only gave it to unemployed people...
What. Isnt that just called welfare?
@@richy4812 yeah lol, not "universal" basic income
DOPE BEATZ BOY$ USA has that too it’s called a welfare check, not UBI
And they then have to try and find a job in the same messed up non-UBI economy. This is why such UBI trials are flawed in how people interpret the results.
Give everyone UBI in the current system and the parasites will eat up the added wealth of the masses. Prices of basic goods and services will rise accordingly.
A system can never transcend a mindset.
That is the group of people that need it, not the people with good jobs or the 1% that are so rich that the monthly cheque wouldn't even pay for one meal. Yang's plan wouldn't even begin to allow a homeless person o pay rent and buy the necessities of life. It's a scam to buy votes.
Those people on the streets will never begged again or ever have to think where will they eat or sleep next America is very happy l, and happy to have Yang!
Is America ready for UBI?
*YES*
There, saved you 12 min.
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Freedom Dividend $1000 per month will help the poor and the homeless greatly.
I'm somewhat not satisfied with this report.
it will help the average person as well... a lot more I would think because the average person are more likely to be prudent with the money than the poor / unemployed.
@Justin Pharand neither of you can predict what would happen because it's never been done on a 300 million person scale. You both can theorize.
Very good reporting, way to show both sides of the argument. Its a complicated and multifaceted idea but people are waking up to the realities that Yang points out will be aided or even solved with UBI. Got my vote! #YangGang
If you haven't already, I recommend reading Yang's book, "The War on Normal People." Great read and a very persuasive and in-depth overview of why UBI is needed. Even Sam Harris changed his mind on UBI (now supporting it) and then endorsed the book.
The reporting seemed good if you didn't catch the fallacy in the comparison. A crucial aspect of the UBI is the "UNIVERSAL" component. However, the UBI experiments spoken about in this video weren't Universal as it was only provided to the poverty stricken or unemployed. I hope that makes sense.
@@danorion369 Yeah you are correct. More or less all the counterarguments they bring up regarding the outcomes of UBI tests could be explained by what you said. Overall they did decent, but that is a major point in selling why it would be effective IF universally deployed across a country this size, as opposed to many of the research experiments conducted around it
UBI will NOT be "universal":
-Taxes for working, self reliant people like me will go up WAY more than the value of the check.
-When they realize they can't pay for it UBI WILL be means tested.
-Special people (i. e. those with proper political views or magic skin pigmentation) will get their "free money" while those they disapprove of (self reliant, self employed, conservative, white, rural) will not.
This is just a scheme to expropriate those they don't like and give money to freeloaders who can sit back and smoke dope.
Anybody who thinks this will replace welfare is delusional.
All I see is idiots arguing for the tech companies in why they shouldnt pay taxes, "No let them keep sticking it in and screwing me over" LOL
$6 trillion for wars? No problem! Trillions for military spending? No problem! $600 billion for rich bank bailout? No problem! $1 trillion for Freedom Dividend? "Now wait just a minute, I don't know if we can afford that..."
The government has been helping the rich get richer long enough! It is time for the government to help the poor! Yang 2020.
I would love to have a Universal Basic Income to help pay for books and student debt.
Why? You don't deserve it. It's not your money. You don't need to go to college, you chose to.
@@africanlipplateandbonenose3223 What are you talking about?! By 2020, 65 percent of all jobs in the economy will require postsecondary education and training beyond high school. WHICH MEANS COLLEGE!!
IT IS their money, its my money too, If we hadn't given it to them they wouldn't have it. That's why people love the free market, but now that superfarms and big corporations have taken over the market, we're forced to work without seeing a penny of the wealth we have generated. With how advanced our country is, people shouldn't be required to work for hours with horrible pay just to feed there families.
Honk Honkler literally the dumbest response. He’s just saying it would help... so what if we don’t need it. You can give it to someone in need
@@son473 A recent study says 25% of all colleges will shut down in 10 years. Why? The price is too high.
"Buy some sneakers..." (some people have big dreams for their life) 1:02
That's how the poor stay poor. Invest in assets
Looked like a tourist anyway, maybe
American citizens are idiots for not voting for Yang.
"Is America ready for free money" Uhhhhh yeah I would think so.
Just a reminder Amazom is a trillion dollar company that has shut down 30% of bysiness and pays $0 in taxes.
but they make everything cheaper at the same time so it's not like they're giving nothing back
@@logannielsen847 You're right, they are becoming a monopoly its all becoming so convient and cheap we wont have to leave our houses soon
@@logannielsen847 Monopolies tend to rise prices and never improve if theres no competition
@@keybadejedi70 precisely.
@@logannielsen847 They temporarily lower prices to make competition go out of business, then raise them because there's no other place to get the product. That's not giving back. That's making a short term sacrifice for a long term monopoly
"idk I'll travel or buy some new sneakers" 😂😂😂
Colton LeDez lol 😂
Wouldn't a Sanders/Yang candidacy pair work for you guys?
Yang/Sanders
Victor Mkhaliphi yang/tulsi
People that say "Without work what's your purpose?" make me sick. If your purpose in life is to stock milk on the shelf, then that's a sad existence. Get up, go to work, come home, go to sleep. Get up, go to work, come home, go to sleep. Get up, go to work, come home, go to sleep. Get up, go to work, come home, go to sleep. Now 40 years has passed and you don't even recognize yourself in the mirror. Your wife left you because you're never home, and you never interact with one another. Your kids have been raised by the Government at the public school. Your only ray of sunshine is thirty minutes at the end of the day watching television. Sunday you get to mow the lawn, so that's something I guess. In case you can't tell this has been my life thus far. UBI would be a great change. My purpose in life should NOT be determined by which boss I'm a slave to every day. My purpose is to be a good father, son, husband, neighbor, brother, citizen, Christian and overall person.
I have some fantastic inventions in my mind I can pursue if UBI is implemented. Now it's lack of time or money to create prototypes of these ideas I have that would change the world for the better.
#ReverendDickie. I'm retired and I'm pursuing my passion. Yeah, I could sit around and do nothing but that's a stupid waste of time. 90% of people would pursue something. It just goes to show what most politicians think of American people.
"Is America Ready?" ...for a new source of news? Yes. Yes we are.
AMEN!
I don't understand the problem with the Finland result. They were JOBLESS when they got UBI. Then, they worked at the same rate as people who didn't get it - ergo: getting UBI *DOES NOT* discourage work. Great. Point proven.
It's not money for nothing. It's money for being apart of America. We need to start looking at one another as a friend and as a whole nation not a free for all.
The more we help our friends the more our friends will help us. It gives people the chance to bring something unique into society instead of slaving for their bills to be paid.
Yang has a way to pay for it! UBI is better than a job guarantee. The Finland study is extremely limited and only was given to some people. It wasn’t true UBI.
He wants to use a VAT, which is a regressive tax, meaning it hurts the poor more and does not affect the wealth *distribution,* which means there is a risk that it could lead to higher prices and more inequality. I don't think VAT is a good idea.
Also, Yang's UBI requires people to opt out of government benefits to receive it. Some people, like the disabled, require government benefits and can't opt out. These people will be even more economically disadvantaged by Yang's version of UBI than they are right now.
I support UBI for poor and middle class people, but only if it is unconditional and only of it is financed by a progressive form of taxation to help reduce inequality, such as a 0.5% tax on Wall Street speculation for example.
@@MrManifolder So let's wait on another candidate who's willing to move forward because he doesn't want to do it specifically the way you want?
@@MrManifolder I think in some interview Andrew said you can exempt certain daily consumer goods such as food from the VAT. Here in Finland we have high VAT but there are lower percentages for things like medicine, food..
I also think AY has said many times that UBI is opt in. So if your benefits are higher, you can keep them
Finland study only gave it to unemployed people. If people are unemployed to begin with, they will probably still be unemployed after. The India study may be more accurate. People in the India study work more with UBI. That’s because it doesn’t just target people who don’t want to work.
This is brilliant ... Andrew is thinking ahead ... something regular politicians aren't able to do!
Anyone can make themselves popular by giving away free money when the money isn't theirs but other people's.
lostn65 I’m getting a college education in construction management. That’s no slob job and requires a good bit of technical skills. There’s already programs that can do my job 40% more efficiently. What is there to do when tech outpaces the ability’s of humans?
@@lostn65 Free for being a share holder of the richest nation in the world. An American Citizen stock dividend that happens to create millions of local jobs, raise GDP by 12% and the economy by $2.5 Trillion. A new trickle-up economy that will minimize future recessions.
futurism.com/new-report-claims-ubi-would-grow-the-u-s-economy-by-2-5-trillion
@@lostn65 Actually watch Yang. He isn't just popular from UBI, and also actually look at his UBI plan.
I love Andrew Yang. When I first heard him on the debate stage talk about everyone getting 1k per month, I just thought it was a silly pipe dream. When I heard the way he spoke about women, and his wife's work at home raising their children, I realized his deep respect for women. That's when he got my attention. He has Marianne Williamson's attention, too. They are both deep thinkers and genuinely care about humanity and how to lift up the American people. I hope they end up on the ticket together. We are blessed to have them both running for president.
Same .... and I’m a New Zealander.
The Finland thing is a subsidy for unemployment rather than a ubi.
Exactly. Not a true representation of UBI at all imo.
Why would anyone asked a stupid question money is good for people and for economy so that we can create trickle up economy so that we can value human beings first for the first time! Will we ever be ready? I know I am ready since 10 years ago! Yang2020!
Nobody asked about where the $4 trillion to bail out the big banks would come from. But when it comes to giving out a dividend to our citizens, all of a sudden people worry about where the money is going to come from
Hype Spade it’s honestly sad lol
I support Yang 100% and ready for UBI !!
I just switched Yang Gang 2020 !!!! Let’s have it ❤️
USA has always been a pioneer in implementing BIG ideas, hope we trust the data and transform the country.
yah, nowadays, when the US pretends to be that beam of values, it makes the rest of the world cringe. With UBI, we would all turn towards the US and go... WOW!
what data
Any opinion from a dinosaur who doesn't know technology is not worthy of any consideration in 21st century.
END POVERTY IN THE USA ANDREW WE ARE WITH YOU.
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