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THE WAR AGAINST NORMAL PEOPLE
The Disappearance of Jobs and What It Means for America
A successful entrepreneur and the author of SMART PEOPLE SHOULD BUILD THINGS, Yang is sounding a wake-up call to the coming crisis in employment caused by widespread automation. His book is a plea for the only sensible policy response: Universal Basic Income. Yang plans to run for U.S. president as a Democratic Party candidate in 2020, and while centered on the crisis in the U.S., THE WAR ON NORMAL PEOPLE suggests solutions with a global reach.
Andrew Yang is not the first person to realize that our shift toward automation is going to create a tsunami of unemployment; our system is about tobe stress-tested on levels no one has ever experienced. A conservative estimate has 13 million American workers losing their jobs within the next seven years. Andrew is also not the first person to realize that an income guarantee may be the only solution that will keep our country from falling off a cliff into unprecedented deprivation. He is however the first to recognize this impending catastrophe and decide to step down from the successful non-profit he founded in order to run for President as a Democrat in 2020 on the platform of Universal Basic Income for all Americans.
THE WAR ON NORMAL PEOPLE will be the central focusing point for the movement around Universal Basic Income, and it is going to redefine our political discourse over the coming months and years. It will describe how the combination of Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics and Automation is making millions of workers’ livelihoods irrelevant faster than most people imagine. It will then present the consequences of these changes, many of which have already begun to affect communities around the U.S., as well as a set of policy responses meant to ease the transition and accelerate society to a new approach to work. The most dramatic policy must be the separation of work from the ability to prosper – a universal basic income guarantee. It will describe what and where the jobs of the future will be and what you can do to steer yourself and your family toward them.
THE WAR ON NORMAL PEOPLE will be a must-read for parents, people interested in career success, higher education, politics, business and management, American society, the unemployment crisis, entrepreneurship, the future of the United States economy, professional fulfillment, non-profits and social innovation. It will be read by the same people who read RISE OF THE ROBOTS by Martin Ford, THE SECOND MACHINE AGE by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, and INDUSTRIES OF THE FUTURE by Alec Ross as well as OUR REVOLUTION by Bernie Sanders.
Our jobs are disappearing faster than society can adapt. Written by an entrepreneur and political figure running for U.S. president, THE WAR ON NORMAL PEOPLE will be the defining title for the movement around Universal Basic Income.
Andrew Yang is the founder and CEO of Venture for America, a national nonprofit that is regarded as one of the country's leading social innovation organizations. He has worked in startups and early-stage growth companies as a founder or executive for more than twelve years, including as the CEO of a national education company that was acquired by Kaplan. Yang was named a Champion of Change by the White House and one of Fast Company's "100 Most Creative People in Business." He lives in New York City.
THE WAR ON NORMAL PEOPLE will be the central focusing point for the movement around Universal Basic Income, and it is going to redefine our political discourse over the coming months and years. It will describe how the combination of Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics and Automation is making millions of workers’ livelihoods irrelevant faster than most people imagine. It will then present the consequences of these changes, many of which have already begun to affect communities around the U.S., as well as a set of policy responses meant to ease the transition and accelerate society to a new approach to work. The most dramatic policy must be the separation of work from the ability to prosper – a universal basic income guarantee. It will describe what and where the jobs of the future will be and what you can do to steer yourself and your family toward them.
THE WAR ON NORMAL PEOPLE will be a must-read for parents, people interested in career success, higher education, politics, business and management, American society, the unemployment crisis, entrepreneurship, the future of the United States economy, professional fulfillment, non-profits and social innovation. It will be read by the same people who read RISE OF THE ROBOTS by Martin Ford, THE SECOND MACHINE AGE by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, and INDUSTRIES OF THE FUTURE by Alec Ross as well as OUR REVOLUTION by Bernie Sanders.
Our jobs are disappearing faster than society can adapt. Written by an entrepreneur and political figure running for U.S. president, THE WAR ON NORMAL PEOPLE will be the defining title for the movement around Universal Basic Income.
Andrew Yang is the founder and CEO of Venture for America, a national nonprofit that is regarded as one of the country's leading social innovation organizations. He has worked in startups and early-stage growth companies as a founder or executive for more than twelve years, including as the CEO of a national education company that was acquired by Kaplan. Yang was named a Champion of Change by the White House and one of Fast Company's "100 Most Creative People in Business." He lives in New York City.
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