andrew yang 2020. no brainer. Surprised why more candidates are not discussing the automation gorilla in the room.
there are not enough low-skilled, difficult to automate jobs that can sustain the population.
there are not enough low-skilled, difficult to automate jobs that can sustain the population.
Automation is a scary specter off in the distance but it's not as actively harmful to people's livelihoods.
> According to our estimates, one more robot per thousand workers reduces the employment to population ratio by about 0.18-0.34 percentage points and wages by 0.25-0.5 percent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/opinion/trump-robots-elec...
> No single factor such as tech-driven worker anxiety determines local political behavior. But there’s no mistaking that districts that voted Republican in the 2018 election are subject to higher levels of automation exposure.