The War on Normal People: The Truth About America’s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future

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From entrepreneur Andrew Yang, the founder of Venture for The us, an eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes-and a rallying cry for the urgent steps The us should take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy.

The shift toward automation is about to create a tsunami of unemployment. Not in the distant future–now. One contemporary estimate predicts 13 million American workers will lose their jobs within the next seven years-jobs that may not be replaced. In a future marked by restlessness and chronic unemployment, what is going to happen to American society?

In The War on Normal People, Andrew Yang paints a dire portrait of the American economy. Impulsively advancing technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and automation software are making millions of Americans’ livelihoods irrelevant. The consequences of these trends are already being felt across our communities in the form of political unrest, drug use, and other social ills. The future looks dire-but is it unavoidable?

In The War on Normal People, Yang imagines a different future — one in which having a job is distinct from the capacity to prosper and are trying to find fulfillment. At this vision’s core is Universal Basic Income, the idea that of providing all citizens with a guaranteed income-and one that may be Impulsively gaining popularity among forward-thinking politicians and economists. Yang proposes that UBI is an essential step toward a new, more durable roughly economy, one he calls “human capitalism.”

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