It's astounding how many people are fine with their chains, as long as their fellow citizens remain enslaved also. We are all in this together. Let's all choose freedom.
@@vagasint.4345 That is fantastic if you enjoy your job. But, that doesn't mean a person should be forced to labor for survival at any job whether they enjoy it or not. There is no need for this anymore, if there ever was. In fact, soon it will become difficult to compete for jobs against automation. It was not always like it is now. In a more natural state of being, you could wander into the wilds and build your own shelter, and you could hunt, fish, gather fruit, and survive without being forced to labor for someone else. That is freedom. That is also no longer possible. Freedom is no longer possible. If you tried to live a subsistence life in today's society, you would be required to labor for the money to purchase licenses, you would have to follow regulations, and that also would not provide you with enough to survive. There is no place left where you can do such things without someone taking resources from you. If you had land, you will be forced to pay taxes. If you don't pay taxes or rent, you will be driven off the land. Everything is claimed by someone else. There is no unclaimed land on which you will not be arrested or driven off if you do not pay taxes. There is no possible path to real freedom. To put food in your mouth or a shelter to sleep in requires money. This requires you to labor for others. So, to survive you must labor for others. This is slavery. Being forced to labor for others under the threat of death is the very definition of slavery. Enjoying your job is great. But, it has no bearing on whether you are free or not. A job is something you should do either because you want something more than the very basics, or because you enjoy it, as you have suggested. Not because you would die if you didn't labor for others. Since we cannot give people freedom by way of giving them a plot of land for them to scratch a living off of, instead give everyone just enough for the very basics of food, clothing, and shelter. If people want more than that in life, let them labor for it. And, I do hope folks can find a job they enjoy to earn the money to get their Netflix, Mocha Frappachinos, and McDonalds. I would also be fine with giving every human being a portion of land to provide for themselves, but since not all land is equally fertile, this would be a physical impossibility. So, instead, let us take the huge gains in productivity in this modern economy and distribute to every single human just enough to obtain the basic needs, thereby granting everyone their basic human right of freedom. $12,000 per year is right at about that amount for just the basics needed to survive. Anything more on top of that, should be on them to get for themselves however they see fit, hopefully with a job they enjoy, or at least at a wage they are willing to accept.
Gnash Ridgeback I had time to read it after all. Oh yeah I have absolutely nothing to say against UBI but I am just saying not everyone feels trapped by their jobs My parents love theirs and I love mine even if I have to work for someone else. But hey if people want to give me 1000$ extra a month on top of what I love doing go ahead I won’t complain
@@vagasint.4345 So cool you love what you do! You are lucky, not everyone does. But, for me it isn't about the money or the job. It is all about freedom for every human. It is that basic human right. The right to say "no" to abusive situations, human trafficking, coercive employment, and bad financially dependent relationships of all sorts. A person's finances should never again be a tool that can be used to make anyone do any single thing against their will. Cheers, and have a good day, Vagas!
@cannabased I feel a consumption based tax is easier for citizens to control and ultimately more fair. I can't control what my land is worth compared to my income, therefore I could be taxed out of my home or be forced to sell my land. I CAN control my consumption. Greater control, greater freedom.
Are you willing to give up/ exchange your freedom for this free money? Are you willing to give up you Health for this? Are you willing to forfeit your most prized possession? Will you forgo your Thought behavior for this free money? Will you give up your internet freedom privileges. Nothing is ever free, let me emphasize this. Nothing is ever free!
@@jeffkeil1595 I'm sure my company absolutely needs that 4-20 hours of UNPAID overtime (that I do EVERY WEEK for the last three years) that is outside of my contracted hours *MUCH* more than my high functioning autistic son could use his dad's help to better understand the STEM technologies he is so fascinated by. *rolls eyes* Get real.
@@jeffkeil1595 someone had a rough childhood that made them have a pessimistic attitude. Perhaps the rugged individualism for parents and school mates while companies continue to get handouts
Really excellent talk on why humanity urgently needs universal basic income. More people need to understand that the gains from technological progress are to be enjoyed by all citizens as a shared inheritance, at a time when automation is displacing millions, potentially billions, of people around the world. Meanwhile, companies doing the automation are becoming more productive and profitable. UBI is the answer.
UBI doesn't do anything about the capitalist structure that overpowers people. It doesn't take away the fear of unemployment that capitalists use to keep wages low and poor people in line. What we need is something that gives REAL power back to the people, giving people an income while on the other end also giving people much needed services and goods that capitalists charge high prices for because they need to profit.
@@gcod3d161 and we need to reduce that power that money has over people by guaranteeing universal basic services so people can have a minimum standard of living regardless of money.
Henry Gustav i totally agree, however wouldn’t ubi be a great first step? we can’t just overthrow the underlying principles of our economic system all in one go *without* harming many more people than we are intending to help
@@goprojoe7449 as a yang ganger and our slogan which reads "Humanity First" i'm going to say something nice to your reply. at least biden is better than pete bootleggieg. there, i said it.😁 BTW.. as I recall, trump didn't have a snowball's chance either, but here we are today.😎 Yang2020
I wish all the Bernie Sanders and Warren supporters etc watch this video and realize that Andrew Yang is really the best choice long term because of this idea of UBI.
@@BS-yt6en that's not true if you look at their solutions objectively. We are in a mixed economy. All they want to do is rid of middle class debt like we did for wall St back in 2008. Healthcare coverage that we have now is overly capitalistic and profit driven. Doctors and nurses complain about spending too much time doing middleman paperwork and not taking care of patients. It's not like we have to completely get rid of insurance companies once we have healthcare for all. Yang's plan is universal health care but keep the insurance companies in case govt health care goes out of control just like right now how insurance companies are out of control with their profit driven price tag. Use MATH, my friend.
If you realize that robotics and AI is doing better every year. And if you realize that eventually a machine will do a better and faster job than you... Then you realize that it's just a matter of time, before you are no longer needed. So you have to ask... Are the machines producing for whom and for what?
Andrew Yang is the only candidate that actually made me tear up hearing his interviews. Other candidates use sob stories and it has no affect on me. We want someone genuine and relatable than a corporate shill that only pretends to know how its like to live with low income. Yang 2020. Lets change the future!
Comparing Toronto in 1970 to Toronto today and attributing the change to income alone is wildly dishonest. The demographics shifted completely in those intervening 50 years.
Floyd you have the means to help make this happen. I hope your in contact with yang and work with him to get this message out there in a way thick headed republicans can stop worrying about the party and start taking ideas from both sides
Free month $$$ FYI I too came from a dysfunctional and abused childhood. That is what gave me my strength, drive, creativity and ambition to do work hard and work smart. Good talk.
American meritocracy: if you work harder, you will make more money. But what if machine is working even harder. Can you compete with machines? The answer is in more and more jobs machines going to outsmart humans. Elon Musk believes so. Most people working with AI believe so. However, average people walking on the streets have no idea.
X VSJ If you read about AI, or talk with someone in the business, you will know AI soon will be able to write computer codes. While I am not saying that all of the programmers are out of jobs, but a lot of them will be. What kinda jobs a programmer can have other than programming, lower paying jobs for sure.
Dinosaur Bernie is the man who can ruin UBI for everyone!! We need Andrew Yang and Dinosaur Bernie debate first make supporters realize that Andrew Yang is the Best candidate Ever!! Put the money in Our hands!!!👍☑️🇺🇸💵😁
Bernie's a good guy, but his solutions are outdated. Don't worry, Obama will block him - he wasn't bullshitting when he indicated that he would. Wonderful, wonderful man. He should have been president a long time ago, but Yang is needed now. He's the one with the necessary solutions.
Love the dividend concept. I heartily believe in a ubi. The benefits well outweigh the negatives and there are negatives - I’ve heard good arguments both ways.
this is so uplifting. people like him should speak out more.Lets's spread this video. Help get andrew Yang into office. Start the greatest global revolution of our time. Usher in the new age of progress.
The beginning of this talk is really good. Spotify wins against record stores, online banking in your smartphone will win against all bank's jobs. So yeahh the world change.
@@TypicalGuy84 ...that's EXACTLY why Ontario needs a UBI system in place. Unemployment rates are only going to get worse as automation & AI are eating up jobs !
Don't want to retire in the States unless Andrew Yang becomes our next president in 2020. I would consider moving to Canada because I am not willing to accept bankruptcy at the onset of a medical/health issue at a later stage of my life, which is inevitable to many people.
The way the system is set up with all the inflation there is It looks like they dont want people to exist they dont need that many useless eaters this whole universal income is oart kf there agenda 21/30 depopulation goals
Yes I said that to be of service to the Yang Gang. The philosophical background to the name is better than simply saying 'it polls well with conservatives'.
PROBLEM - As with unemployment benefits, you sign an agreement to receive those funds after you have meet the conditions of the agreement. But it does not impinge upon your rights as a citizen. IF you receive Universal Basic Income ( INCOME ), you a legally now an employee of the state 24 / 7 to a government that reserves the right to alter the terms and conditions of this new agreement when it suits them. With no old structure in place anymore to fall back on IF the government as your employer starts making demands of you, as an employee they could simply let you go and no more UBI. It sounds like a utopia but it creates a new situation where governments could use this as leverage against it's new employees to do it's corporate bidding. and WALLAH ! you've created a corporate version of soviet socialism. ( PS regardless of this America needs Bernie Sanders ).
the only part I missed is that it isn't socailism, isn't it the fruits of labour from the means of production being re-distributed among the population equally?
UBI is a good idea, but it is being conceptualized incorrectly (which could lead to it going off the rails). What is really needed is to make all citizens capitalists, literally. We need a return on national investment (RNI). All people need to literally own a small cut of all productive capital in their country. The justification for this is simple: society made 'capital investments' in every individual and company (in the form of public services, infrastructure etc.), and therefore is owed partial ownership of the resultant productive capital. The capital gains and dividends from this ownership is then divided equally among all citizens. Although the end result of a RNI is similar to a UBI, it is CLEARLY not charity. At least not anymore than collecting capital gains or dividends from investments is charity. It also makes clear that every citizen has a stake in the economic well being of the country because they will see their returns on national investment (RNI) fluctuate with the country's economy on a monthly or yearly basis.
Do in the first min the speaker said that ubi will allow people to say m stand up against their government. You mean the one cutting you a monthly check?
That image of the automated robot arm serving soup to the poor says it all, I like the idea of the technology dividend and that the human race should benefit from it as a a general rule....Not all of us can design the next killer app nor should we....A UBI seems a very sane choice when I look around me, everyone is doing it tuff and the 'working poor' as a term has never seemed more real.
It is so sad that people consider ubi utopistic, and that they give so much value to jobs, no matter what it is, just because can generate income, when we could be free to live our lives with a universal basic income
Looking at the resistance to freedom of slaves makes me see the resistance of freedom for those who are not financially free in modern times. When all the old-heads die off we can proceed to freedom
As soon as you flood the market with all that conjured money, the cost of living will go up and the value of the dollar will go down to a point where the handouts become worthless. I do admire people like this for making an attempt to find solutions, but there are no solutions. Prepare for a world of living nightmares.
@@arrayofwayz Admittedly I'm not an expert. But I just don't think one sparsely populated state's population getting an annual oil dividend check is enough to lower the value of the US dollar. Plus that money is based in actual oil wealth. Universal Basic Income would just be the Federal Reserve conjuring new money based on nothing.
UBI didn't work in the native american reservations. it didn't work in the chinese slums. i'm sure it will work in the USA. they are trying it out in stockton, CA, and couple other cities as we speak. in a couple years, we will know if it works or not.
The problem i see why ubi will not be made possible is that the rich and superrich people of the world dont want to loose majority of their wealth in favor of the people who made them rich in the first place. Atlaest as long as politicans and media working in favor of those wealthy groups and individuals....
Pretty terrible reasoning thoughout, i support UBI because markets would arrange to serve many and thus achieve returns to scale. Big wealth gap isnt the definition of feudalism and it was never computers taking work. Its the ideas of smart people being heard more than ever that concentrates wealth and power
Exactly! Would we have gotten the iPhone if a certain private company hadn't invented all those technologies, like TCP/IP, GPS and Multi-Touch screen and the like? I'm speaking of course of the Pentagon. Look it up.
More importantly than anything is that the concept of UBI is becoming more understood. My curiosity though really wants to know who stole who's speech!? When was this Tedtalk done? It sounds like Yang's speech practically verbatim, even using the label "freedom dividend " yet no mention of Andrew. 🤔
@@dusk9618 I'm not familiar with this term value added tax. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't adding a tax ( taking your money ) to supplement cost of living be counterintuitive? In other words it would be like my wife taking money out of our account to help me pay for our food and telling me she paid 🤦🏻♂️
@@TypicalGuy84 that's not really how a Value Added Tax works. There are quite a few great videos about it. In essence; as a product passes through the production chain, it's taxed when value is added to the end product. In Europe the average VAT is 20%, what Yang proposes is half that rate. So a shovel, for example, is $10, after a VAT it might cost 12$. Not terrible for the average citizen who has to buy one or two a year. But for those who are high consumers, it adds up. Keep in mind those were just rounded numbers. I'm sure someone can explain it far better.
@@dusk9618 I did look it up, it's just another tax. Why not purpose a tax cut to people who need it the most? I personally would love to keep more of my money in the highly taxed state of NY. As a matter of fact, Trump cut taxes for us. I saved $65 a week, let's keep that trend going. All of these Democrats talk about free school, healthcare and money. Just let me keep my own earned money and I'll vote for that person.
Which of the most important intentions, discoveries, developments of the past century were made by people constrained by poverty? Detractors claim UBI would destroy motivation and creativity. I would argue that poverty is a much more effective destroyer of dreams than leisure. Einstein had some of his most important ideas while sitting still in deep thought for long periods. It's impossible to do that while worried about your next meal. And as for the "poor choices" people in poverty make, it's easy to see why when you stop assuming it's about irresponsibility and look at the actual choices they have to make every day: food or phone, clothes or cars, homes or heat. People criticize the poor for prioritizing their iPhone over she!ter and transportation, food, clothing and savings. But it doesn't take a genius to see that the iPhone has been prioritized not only by the people who have them, but by the company that makes them. If we put the same effort into affordable housing, don't you think the poor would have homes? But in a world that depends on connectivity for everything from social Inclusion to professional advancement, it's ridiculous to expect the poor to cut themselves out of society for the sake of quality food or better housing. Industry has made it possible for everyone to "afford" smart phones, as just one example, by stretching out the investment over many months or years. A poor person can more easily come up with $30 in a month than $1,500. It's asinine to believe that the sacrifice of a $1000 phone or $100 pair of shoes would transform their lives. Or the equivalent daily sacrifice required to suddenly be able to achieve decent wages, sustainable employment, and a foreseeable future. Critics of UBI have never had to choose between keeping the family car running or keeping the lights on, paying the rent or paying for school. You who criticize their choices have never had to make them. You forget that your parents were able to provide for you with, steady, secure jobs and equitable pay, no matter what they did for work. That working hard meant going to one job for 20 years and retiring. Now, job security is an oxymoron. Life for many has reverted to a daily hunt for subsistence, a life of hustle and competition that fundamentally alters the stability required for social mobility. The people who make our greatest technological breakthroughs now keep all the proceeds, forgetting entirely that it was all of us that made it possible and a few of us that made it realizable. Gene Simmons, the bass player and co-founder of the rock band, KISS, has one of the most admirable philosophies of any of the most successful people of the past 40 years: America made his life possible and the taxes he pays he pays gladly. Because without the opportunities afforded him by his adopted country, he would have nothing. What if, instead of screaming about the money they would lose if we implemented UBI or tech taxes the rich instead looked at what they did make as the payoff and willingly contributed to the body that made ANY of it possible? It's a no-brainer. Say what you will about Gene Simmons as a person, there is a reason his feelings are echoed by other, richer people like Warren Buffett. It takes all of America to produce a billionaire. It's not "giving back" it's paying dues. It's not a voluntary sacrifice of their wealth, it's a debt owed to the society that made everything they achieved possible. From their parents to their teachers to their mentors, supporters and especially their customers. When did we stop being grateful? Critics talk about Millennials being entitled. I would argue that if they are, it's because they've been mimicking the entitled 1%. When you honestly believe that you are successful solely on your own merit, you fail to recognize the multitude of others who had a hand in your success. The game is not to take as much as you can and hoard it, to milk every cent of profit out of your employees, working them into poverty so you can live high while conspiring to avoid taxes at all costs. The game is to recognize and support the people who invested in you at every turn. Replacing human labor with robots is efficient and business is nothing without efficiency. If we take just a portion of that increased efficiency as the proceeds to benefit the displaced workers, it's not difficult to see how UBI makes sense. If a machine displaces 10 workers, saving 10 salaries, how is a labor expense of 1/10th the cost not palatable? After all, with no market, all the robots in the world can produce all the cheapest and most desirable goods imaginable for no purpose. Talk about inefficient.
For those wondering why Yang is the only one really talking about a UBI, it's called politics. Other people outside of you exist in the world. Especially considering the older generation, Americans as a whole might not be ready for this. Taking smaller steps is what other candidates are trying to work for, because you can't ever implement a UBI if you can't get elected first. I understand it's not ideal but neither is democracy, but it's the best we've got.
Don't act defeated. Utilize the best parts of democracy by educating others. If people understand then they can be encouraged to vote. Learned helplessness is what keeps that 1% in power. We don't have to fight regime change wars. We don't have to be friends with MBS, we don't have to just let Insurance companies control us, we don't have to take that pain medicine from Purdue pharma. THERE ARE BETTER WAYS. UBI, lucky for us, is easy to implement.
Is it not foreseeable that capitalists who sell products or services that are a necessity such as rent, or drugs, would raise their prices to the highest that consumers can bare with this additional income, effectively providing a net zero benefit to working class people? I see the potential for this to be only a concession that ends up being a redistribution of wealth from one capitalist to another, unless there is something done to prevent market abuse from re-extracting this benefit from workers.
tim walsh For sure, I’m not necessarily for or against UBI I have spent a bit of time educating myself on the subject, and still am still not sure if it would be a net positive. I always ask someone who uses that quote those questions, so I do not strawman someone who prescribes that ideology to describe how we should deal with the distribution and extraction of resources, and labor.
