Why Andrew Yang is building instead of waiting for Washington

Andrew Yang’s 2020 statesmanlike campaign was based connected a warning that automation and AI would hollow retired the labour marketplace and ore wealthiness successful the hands of a few. At the time, ideas similar Universal Basic Income felt fringe. Now Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Bernie Sanders are all saying versions of the aforesaid thing. 

An entrepreneur astatine heart, Yang has recovered a caller mode to enactment wealth backmost into the hands of the people — one telephone measure astatine a time. On this occurrence of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan talks to Yang about his startup Noble Mobile, which pays you to usage your telephone less, ways to combat the “attention economy,” and what startups tin bash erstwhile the government won’t move. 

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