Headline March 01, 2018/ ''' ROBOTS -*RASCALLY*- ROBBERS '''

''' ROBOTS -*RASCALLY*- ROBBERS '''

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DOOMING YEARS DECADES : IN THE NEXT 10 YEARS OR SO - one just can't imagine what would happen to the jobs and more importantly to-

The societies in these - Highly and densely populated countries like- Indonesia, Pakistan, India, China, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Sri Lanka,............

Mr. Andrew Yang's campaign slogan is *Beware of Robots*, and.........

Critics may dismiss Mr. Andrew Yang's campaign slogan : ''Humanity First'' as a futurist vanity stunt.

The Democratic pipeline is already stuffed with would be 2020 contenders, most of whom already have the - Public profile and political experience that Mr. Yang lacks - and at least one of whom,  Bernie Sanders, has already hinted at a support for a *universal basic income*.

But opponents of universal basic income have also pointed to  its steep price tag - an annual outlay of $12,000 per American adult would cost approximately $2 trillion, equivalent roughly to half of the current federal budget -

And the possibility that giving out free money could encourage people not to work.

These reasons, among others, are why Hillary Clinton, who considered adding universal basic income to her 2016 platform, concluded it was ''exciting but not realistic''.

''In America's political culture, there are formidable political obstacles to providing cash to working-age people who aren't employed, and it's unlikely that Universal Basic Income would surmount them.''

Mr Andrew Yang caught the political bug after starting Venture for America, an organization modeled after Teach for America that connects- recent college graduates with  start-up businesses.

During his travel to Midwestern cities, he began to connect the growth of anti-establishment populism with the rise of  *workplace automation*

*''The reason  Donald Trump  was elected was that we automated away four million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin,''* he said.

''If you look at the voter data, it shows that the higher the level of concentration of   manufacturing robots in a district, the more that district voted for Trump.''

Mr. Yang's skepticism of technology extends beyond factory robots. In his campaign book,  ''The War On Normal People,'' he writes that he wants to establish a Department of the Attention Economy in order to regulate -

Social Media companies like Facebook and Twitter.

He also proposes appointing a cabinet-level secretary of technology, based in Silicon Valley, to  study the effects of emerging technologies.

So over and above, on Universal Basic Income, Mr. Yang thinks he can make case. He has proposed paying for a basic income  with a value-added tax, a consumption-based tax that he says would raise money from  companies that profit from automation.

A recent study by the Roosevelt Institute, a left-leaning think-tank, suggested that such a plan, paid for by a progressive  tax plan, could expand the economy by more than 2 percent and provide jobs for 1.1 million more people.

''Universal basic income is an old idea,'' Mr. Yang said, ''but it's an old idea that right now is uniquely relevant because of what we're experiencing in  society.''

Mr. Yang's prominent supporters include  Andy Stern, a former leader of Service Employees international Union, who credited him with -

''Opening up a discussion the country's afraid to have.''

His campaign has also attracted some of Silicon Valley's elites, Tony Hsieh, the chief executive of  Zappos, is an early donor to Mr. Yang's campaign as are several venture capitalists and high-ranking alumini of Facebook and Google.

And then Mr. Yang has other radical ideas, too. He wants to appoint a White House psychologist,  ''make taxes fun'' by turning April 15 into a national holiday and put into effect -

''Digital Social Credits,'' a kind of gamed reward system to encourage socially productive behavior. And to stem corruption, he suggests increasing the president's salary to $4 million from its current $400,000.

And although he said he was socially liberal, he admitted that he hadn't fully developed all his positions.

On most social issues, Mr. Yang said, ''I believe what you probably think I believe.''

Be that it may, the likelihood, of course, is that Mr. Yang's candidacy won't end with a parade down  Pennsylvania Avenue. Still, experts think that they are glad to have him talking about the long-term risks of automation, at a time-

When much of Washington is consumed with the very immediate and visible.

Erik Brnyjolfsson, the director of  M.I.T's Initiative on the Digital Economy and co-author of ''The Second Machine Age,''  praised Mr. Yang for bringing automation's economic effects into the conversation.

''This is a serious problem. and its going to get a lot worse,'' Mr. Brynjolfsson said.

''In every election for the next 10 to 20 years, this will become a more salient issue, and the candidates who can speak to it effectively will do well.''

Mr. Yang knows he could send the  automation alarm without running for president. But he feels a sense of urgency. In his view, there's no time to mess around with think-tank papers and ''super PACs,'' because clock is ticking.

''We have 5 to 10 years before truckers lose their  job,'' he said, ''and all hell breaks loose.'' 

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