Why US politics is broken — and how to fix it | Andrew Yang
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🗓️ 7 May 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The political system in the United States needs a redesign, says political reformer Andrew Yang. Exposing the flaws of a system built on poor incentives, he proposes a cost-effective overhaul inspired by primary elections already working in places like Alaska and advocates for ranked-choice voting, where voters can choose candidates in order of preference regardless of party, stemming the influence of extreme ideologies.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, |
| 0:09.0 | you're listening to Ted Talks Daily, |
| 0:11.0 | where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm your host, Elise Hugh. |
| 0:17.0 | Andrew Yang is convinced that the American political process is horribly broken. |
| 0:22.0 | He blames it on a fundamental design flaw in the system. |
| 0:26.0 | In his TED 2024 talk, the political reformer shares his ideas to fix it. |
| 0:31.0 | We'll dive into this talk right after the break. And now our |
| 0:36.7 | TED Talk of the day. It's great to be here. I'm Andrew Yang. I'm going to be |
| 0:41.3 | talking about why American politics are not working and then how to fix them all within 10 minutes. What do you all think? |
| 0:47.0 | Yes. I'm speaking here in Canada and a friend in Canada described living here or we compared it to living in the apartment above a meth lab |
| 1:00.2 | Where it's getting very nervous about what's happening below him and is starting to concern the entire neighborhood. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm going to suggest that what's going wrong with American politics is born of poor and perverse incentives that are related to a design flaw. |
| 1:17.0 | Now this design flaw can happily be addressed at only 2% of the cost of how much the two major parties are going to pour into this presidential |
| 1:27.4 | cycle. |
| 1:28.4 | This is to me the highest leverage opportunity in the world to start solving some of our biggest problems. |
| 1:35.0 | Now, some of you may remember me as the math guy from four years ago. |
| 1:40.0 | So there will be some math in this presentation, but I went around the US making the case |
| 1:47.2 | that AI was going to come and change everything and that we needed to evolve our economy, |
| 1:51.4 | adopting measures like universal basic income, |
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