The Future of Politics & Bitcoin with Andrew Yang - WBD421

Mr Obnoxious

Peter McCormack

Technology, News, Politics, Money, Investing, Finance, Bitcoin

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🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Location: New York
Date: Friday 29th October
Project: Forward Party
Role: Leader

Nearly two-thirds of Americans want to vote for someone outside of the current two main parties. The current duopoly is limiting competition in the space for ideas, and worse, it’s actively promoting the polarisation of society. Yet, voting for a third-party candidate isn’t a choice most voters get, and even when they do, it risks being deemed a wasted vote by a media that frames election results as an existential risk to the nation.

The underlying concern is that the current political system is getting in the way of solving the biggest problems at a time when the economy and society is changing in fundamental ways. But whilst most people can see that our politics and media are dysfunctional, they also feel impotent.

Andrew Yang is one of those rare individuals who has decided to actively try and change the system, despite the odds being stacked against change being driven by an outsider. However, he’s already shown he can do the heavy lifting: he made a meaningful mark on the 2020 Presidential election despite not being part of the political establishment or having had a celebrity platform.

In this interview, I talk to Andrew, author of ‘The War on Normal People’ (2018), ‘Forward’ (2021), and leader of the Forward Party, about his 2020 Presidential run and his current mission to bring about genuine political competition. We then discuss what such competition would enable: reasoned debate about big ideas such as Universal Basic Income, health reform, and Bitcoin.

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0:00.0	Politicians are creatures of the market. What market are they responding to?
0:06.3	Their political incentives, their donors, the media. So what do we have to do? We have to create
0:10.9	our own political incentives and donors and the media to
0:14.4	stand up for Bitcoin and progress and the rest of it or else we're going to wind up
0:19.6	on the cutting room floor. Hello there, how are you all?
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