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> Seems like a lot of the points the author calls out as ignored by democrats are now talking points in Andrew Yang stump speeches. Not sure how getting govern

• manicdee 7y ago
  As coveted in the comment: UBI provides a safety net so you can take risks with new ventures. It’s not a hand out it’s a hand up.
• sudosteph 7y ago
  Look at how Yang is branding it though - he never calls it a "handout" or "welfare" - it's a "freedom dividend" for "citizen stakeholders". As goofy as that sounds (to me at least) - he's intentionally using capitalistic terms give listeners some mental distance between "thing I received because people felt bad for me(handout)" and "thing I am deserve because I have made contributions(dividend)". And the masculinity thing was mostly in regards to why retraining attempts frequently fail even if there is demand. He said this recently, and though it's overly simplistic - I think it does kinda capture the resistance that people do have to changing their ideas of themselves and their work dramatically. > “I was just at a truck stop in Iowa,” Andrew Yang says on Fox. He says if you told those truckers you were going to retrain them to be computer programmers, they “would be more likely to punch you in the face than to sign up.”