The War on Normal People

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The New York Times bestseller from CNN Political Commentator and 2020 former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, this thought-provoking and prescient call-to-action outlines the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income (UBI), to stabilize our economy amid rapid technological change and automation.

The shift toward automation is about to create a tsunami of unemployment. Not in the distant future–now. One recent estimate predicts 45 million American workers will lose their jobs within the next twelve years–jobs that won’t be replaced. In a future marked by restlessness and chronic unemployment, what will happen to American society?

In The War on Normal People, Andrew Yang paints a direportrait of the American economy. Rapidly advancing technologies likeartificial intelligence, robotics and automation software are makingmillions of Americans’ livelihoods irrelevant. The consequences of thesetrends are already being felt across our communities in the form ofpolitical unrest, drug use, and other social ills. The future looksdire-but is it unavoidable?

In The War on Normal People,Yang imagines a different future–one in which having a job isdistinct from the capacity to prosper and seek fulfillment. At thisvision’s core is Universal Basic Income, the concept of providing allcitizens with a guaranteed income-and one that is rapidly gainingpopularity among forward-thinking politicians and economists. Yangproposes that UBI is an essential step toward a new, more durable kindof economy, one he calls “human capitalism.”