Yeah, honestly I don't really understand the article's point.
Is it that say McDonalds switching to electronic kiosks to order your burger is going to create as MANY tech jobs as it took away? Because that doesn't pass the smell test.
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There were a slew of anti-yang articles that came out from the leftmost media sources immediately after the debate, owing to the fact that Yang made Elizabeth Warren look unprepared in her answer about job loss.
Andrew Yang, snake oil salesman: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/andrew-yang-tech-entr...
Is Yang doing more harm than good to the case for universal income?: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/16/andrew-ya...
Andrew Yang is Full of it: https://slate.com/business/2019/10/andrew-yang-automation-un...
There was one more I can't find. It's good to be generating hit pieces; it means someone views you as a threat.
I watched the debate, and I'm not a big Warren fan, but it most definitely wasn't my impression that Yang won that argument or made her look unprepared. If anything I would give the point to Warren for citing data arguing that automation to date has had significantly less impact than sending jobs to China and Mexico.
I think Yang has a solid argument that automation is a considerable job risk in the future, but we don't know how long that will take. I really doubt truckers are going to be obsolete so quickly. The tech will be good enough no doubt, but there's going to be a kerfuffle that'll slow it down, especially if you get a pro union candidate like Sanders.
I think Yang is a good talker, charismatic, and smart, but I don't buy his urgency... yet. That being said, I think he'd make a good candidate (personally prefer Bernie, but would happily accept Yang).
No doubt a lot of media is trying to tank him (we see this with Bernie constantly), which just makes it really hard to sort the reality from the BS and polarizes people further.
National Review a leftmost media source?
Or Politico, or Slate. When I hear "leftmost" I'm thinking like, Jacobin or Chapo
"Ah yes, noted Leftist bastion"
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"the National Review"
What is the basis for saying Politico has a bias in some direction?
> Yeah, honestly I don't really understand the article's point
To discredit Yang's main running ideal.
Perhaps the article's reason for being is simply that, if you publish a headline with a professional-looking article behind it, then large swaths of people will have their opinions swayed without actually reading through.
It will free up a lot of workers to do other things
Right now if you want to employ them you have to compete with McD burger-flipping, now they will be available for your next enterprise