Joe Rogan Experience #1245 - Andrew Yang
Why Hacker News recommends it
Suggested as a starting point for understanding Yang's capitalist case for UBI, though some note it is long and dated.
What it is
Joe Rogan's long interview with Andrew Yang during his 2020 presidential run. They discuss universal basic income, automation and his policy proposals.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2019 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Recommends hanniabu · 2019-03 · on “France Plans 5% Digital Tax as Governments Chase Internet Giants”
I was listening to Presidential candidate Andrew Yang in his podcast with Joe Rogan. His plans, since there's a lot of avoidance, is to attempt a different route called a "value added" tax where there's a tax for trucking mileage and online transactions. He mentioned other countries to both of these, but don't remember which he mentioned off the top of my head. Here's the podcast for those interested, there's a lot of other interesting discussions here that are related to this topic, such as automation and basic income. [this video]
Recommends AareyBaba · 2019-03 · on “Boston Dynamics’ new robot stacks boxes [video]”
This might be good point to mention the only 2020 presidential candidate who is talking about how UBI could address this seemingly inevitable future that is closer than we think. Andrew Yang. See his discussion with students at Georgetown Univ. [LINK] or for a longer exposition of his ideas see [this video]
Recommends AareyBaba · 2019-06 · on “Sanders to propose canceling entire $1.6T in US student loan debt”
That is candidate Andrew Yang's proposal. 120K to every American over 10 years. You should checkout his proposals. There are long form interviews on Youtube. [this video]
Recommends AareyBaba · 2019-10 · on “Stockton, CA Tested Universal Basic Income. Here’s How Recipients Spent It”
A public jobs/infrastructure program would work something like this: various states would lobby for money to spend in their states, $billions in large contracts would be awarded to politically connected corporations that would bill at $100/hr keep a large percentage and subcontract the work at $40/hr to smaller businesses that in turn would keep a percentage and hire people to do the work for $15/hr. That is trickle down economics. If instead you distributed the $billions to every citizen in the country, the vast majority of the money would be spent in local economies on things like day care, car or home repair, taking your kids in for dental cleaning. That is a trickle up economy. I too rea
Cites godelski · 2020-01 · on “The Yang Gang and Its Bots”
It was a poor joke making a critique of the Medium post. > It does make me more interested in hearing what Yang has to say because it seems honest and like a statement from someone who hasn't been doing political activism for years. Lots of people suggest the Joe Rogan podcast [0], but that is old, things have changed in his campaign, and it is long. I rather like the Now This interview [1] (30 mins). Others like the Iowa Town Hall[2] (hour). The reasons I personally like Yang are #1, climate (I'm a scientist myself and work in labs with many climate scientists. I don't think his plan is going to solve everything, but I like it more than the other candidates. It is clear to me he has talked