Andrew Yang: Inside the Mind of a 2020 Presidential Candidate
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Unmistakable Creative, we are joined by Andrew Yang, an American entrepreneur and 2020 presidential candidate for the Democratic party. Yang shares his journey from being a "scrappy entrepreneur-type" to running for the highest office in the land. He discusses the factors that sparked his interest in politics, including the growing student loan debt and the shifting technological and economic policies.
Yang, the founder of Venture for America, offers a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities facing America today. His insights into the economy, technology, and education provide a fresh take on the issues that matter most to voters. This episode is not just about Yang's political journey but also about his vision for a more equitable and innovative America.
Don't miss this episode to learn more about Andrew Yang's ideas and his vision for the future of America. Whether you're interested in politics, entrepreneurship, or the future of our economy, this episode offers valuable insights and thought-provoking discussions.
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| 0:00.0 | When Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, I looked into the numbers and I found that the single biggest variable that explained the movement towards Trump in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin was the adoption |
| 0:16.7 | of industrial robots in each voting district where the more you'd automated away jobs, the more |
| 0:22.2 | people move towards Trump. |
| 0:24.0 | And you're on the West Coast so you know this, but my friends in Silicon Valley are 100% |
| 0:28.9 | confident that we are going to automate away millions more jobs in retail, truck driving and transportation, |
| 0:38.5 | customer service, food prep, and on and on throughout the economy. |
| 0:44.0 | And I realize that we're in the third inning |
| 0:46.0 | of the greatest economic and technological transition |
| 0:49.0 | in human history. |
| 0:51.0 | And the third inning has already given us Donald Trump and it's only |
| 0:54.7 | going to accelerate and take off as artificial intelligence gets better and |
| 0:58.7 | better and so I went to our political leaders and said, |
| 1:02.5 | guys, this is the core problem. |
| 1:05.1 | We've automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs |
| 1:08.4 | in the swing states, and we're about to triple down on that. |
| 1:12.3 | What are we going to do? And the political leadership that I met |
| 1:16.7 | with, including many Democrats, really didn't have any answer. Like they just were completely unequipped with trying to address this which in a way |
| 1:29.0 | it shouldn't be shocking because this is an unprecedented level of change. |
| 1:36.2 | But some of the answers were just so dispiriting. |
| 1:38.3 | They were like, we can't talk about this, |
| 1:47.0 | we should study this more, I mean things that are just ridiculous on the face. And then the third big one was that we need to educate and retrain Americans to the jobs of the future. |
| 1:54.0 | And as you know from having read my book, I looked into the data on federally funded |
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