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I'm the ultimate outsider with most of the current political landscape. I am not very interested in getting into the weeds with so many wedge issues where people just get really angry or worse, they become acolytes of a particular party, which makes a hypocrite of them as they back their 'side' beyond the range of logic.
And then you have the near constant 'purity' tests that define current days. Everyone moving to be the MOST left or right wing of their group.
And then you have Andrew Yang.
The reality is that his numbers are low, but I think he has some important perspective, and a very non-extremist, logic-focused way of looking at things, and I'm glad his message is gaining some traction out there. Retail, transportation, call center, medical, restaurants/food service, warehouse, agriculture, we're looking at successive and cumulative waves of job losses that will absolutely devastate our economy if we don't figure out what to do about it.
Unlike past upheavals, I don't really see a successful transition for a huge number of the people whose job will be obsolete in the next 5-15 years, as instead of one sector shrinking and rising waters lifting other boats, it's going to be chewing away at so many different sectors at once that trying to find a lifeboat that isn't ALSO sinking is going to cause a tsunami of upended families and individuals.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/20/andrew-yang-2020-226931
And then you have the near constant 'purity' tests that define current days. Everyone moving to be the MOST left or right wing of their group.
And then you have Andrew Yang.
The reality is that his numbers are low, but I think he has some important perspective, and a very non-extremist, logic-focused way of looking at things, and I'm glad his message is gaining some traction out there. Retail, transportation, call center, medical, restaurants/food service, warehouse, agriculture, we're looking at successive and cumulative waves of job losses that will absolutely devastate our economy if we don't figure out what to do about it.
Unlike past upheavals, I don't really see a successful transition for a huge number of the people whose job will be obsolete in the next 5-15 years, as instead of one sector shrinking and rising waters lifting other boats, it's going to be chewing away at so many different sectors at once that trying to find a lifeboat that isn't ALSO sinking is going to cause a tsunami of upended families and individuals.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/20/andrew-yang-2020-226931
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