The War on Normal People: The Truth about America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
Andrew Yang
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The War on Normal People: The Truth about America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
Andrew Yang
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Andrew Yang’s new book pulls together all of the bits of this narrative and packages it in an easy to read manner.
Several recent books have provided good background briefings for what a U.B.I. [universal basic income] could be.
I share Mr. Yang’s worries about the future of work, but I remain convinced, even after reading...that UBI is the wrong answer to this challenge. We need policies that encourage job creation and working, not policies that pay people not to work.
The author’s support of a guaranteed basic income is just one aspect of a platform to fend off that bleak future. He also looks at such things as the 'social credit' system of bartering goods and services and reforming the higher education system to 'teach and demonstrate some values.' Longer on description than prescription but a provocative work of social criticism..
This eye-opening if depressing analysis from Yang, founder of the nonprofit Venture for America, proves far more effective at outlining an impending employment crisis in America than in offering practical solutions.