Raw LLM Responses

Andrew Yang 🤝 Bernie Sanders - The spoils of automation should benefit humanity not just the people at the top - a healthy society should be measured by human flourishing, not just GDP, the stock market, or workplace productivity - four day work week / 32 hour work week with no loss in pay In 2020 Yang was directly for a universal basic income (UBI), funded primarily by a value-added tax (VAT) on AI and automation and luxury goods. Personally I think a guaranteed minimum income, possibly still funded by a VAT, is a good, immediate starting point. Convincing the nation that we have mechanisms to declare some sort of dividend for ourselves in the economy would be a good first step towards a UBI if that becomes necessary. I worry about regressive taxes, but we do currently have an economy where half of spending is done by the top 10% of earners. Maybe new taxes can actually be tailored to not punish those with less. Sen. Sanders’ floats a “robot tax” in his message; this ought to be considered on its own as well. There are so many base level issues in our country that should have been solved before we were asked to reckon with the final innings of a new Industrial Revolution (healthcare costs, universal health insurance, affordable housing, public safety, public transit, higher education costs, democracy hanging by a thread), but we also have to have robots on the radar. Humanity First