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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...ential-candidate-promising-free-money-for-all
I don’t see this guy winning the D slot but I didn’t see Trump winning the R one either but hey apparently things happen. I agree with him on the "guaranteed jobs" bs and it creating a nightmarish scenario of the country becoming dependent on the fed gov to create not needed jobs to pay people with. It would distort the economy and discourage movement of people to areas where jobs are needed. Work is better than no work though I suppose. This didn’t work for the USSR and won’t work for us either. The government is not the answer.
His platform: https://www.yang2020.com/policies/
Reading through I found this:
Yang is a 44-year-old entrepreneur who had stints at a healthcare software startup and the test prep company Manhattan Prep before founding the nonprofit Venture for America, which placed college graduates in startup and venture funding roles in cities like Detroit and Pittsburgh.
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Yang’s platform has its critics, even among progressives. UBI is apparently too out-there for Bernie Sanders, who tends to hem and haw when asked whether he supports it. And while Hillary Clinton flirted with the idea, she ultimately considered it economically infeasible. No other candidate for 2020 has embraced UBI, though many Democrats back a plan to give cash to working-class families. Some leftists have argued that a jobs guarantee—like the one contained in the Green New Deal—is preferable to giving people money for nothing. But Yang worries that creating “a new underclass of government employees who are doing make-work” could be, at worst, “a dystopian nightmare.” Chabot, like Yang, is worried about the proliferation of “bullshit jobs.” And Almaz Zelleke, a political science professor at NYU Shanghai, said that the effects of a jobs guarantee wouldn’t be as sweeping as for UBI.
I don’t see this guy winning the D slot but I didn’t see Trump winning the R one either but hey apparently things happen. I agree with him on the "guaranteed jobs" bs and it creating a nightmarish scenario of the country becoming dependent on the fed gov to create not needed jobs to pay people with. It would distort the economy and discourage movement of people to areas where jobs are needed. Work is better than no work though I suppose. This didn’t work for the USSR and won’t work for us either. The government is not the answer.
His platform: https://www.yang2020.com/policies/
Reading through I found this:
Laws that prevent employers from retaliating against workers who share salary data, and others that force employers to disclose that information, are band-aids that try to account for the issue on the back-end. The federal government must do more to ensure that anyone performing the same work in substantially similar situations should receive equal pay.
Fed gov to make employers disclose pay information is his goal, frick that. It would create all sorts of problems. If an employer feels person A brings more to the table than person B for whatever reason they have every right to pay them whatever they negotiate what the person is worth. Making them disclose all people’s salaries would be an absolute nightmare for companies and their HR dept.
