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Lädt ... The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future (2019. Auflage)von Andrew Yang (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. The book was a great read, some of the info I'd already picked up in Ford's Rise of the Robots. But I especially liked Yang's creative solutions. That's thinking outside the box! That's what America/Americans need! If AY doesn't get elected as president, he and others with the same passion and creativity, need to be involved in government in someway. These are the guys we should be listening to - not the self-serving clowns that get sent year after year to represent. Prior to reading this book, I have heard Andrew Yang’s arguments for him to be President of the United States. I don’t think he has much of a chance to be nominated but I give him enormous credit for seeing what will happen in the future.Particularly when it comes to jobs and employment given all the automation and technology improvements that are pending. This book serves as Yang’s crystal ball as he gazes into today’s trends and foresees a future where there will be tremendous upheaval in the job markets including those that appear safe now. It’s a bit of an eye opening book as you don’t hear much discussion or debate among Presidential campaigns or political leaders as to what the immediate future may look like. Listed below are some of my highlighted notes from the book: Today 40% of American children are born outside of married households. Right now some of the smartest people in the country are trying to figure out how to replace you with an overseas worker, a cheaper version of you, or, increasingly, a widget, software program, or a robot. The top one percent have accrued 52% of the real income growth in America since 2009. CoStar, a commercial real estate firm, estimated in 2017 that roughly 310 out of the nation’s 1300 shopping malls are at high risk of losing an anchor store, which typically begins a mall’s steep decline. So the incentives to adopt automated truck driving are massive – – tens of billions of dollars saved annually plus thousands of lives. Amazon now controls 43% of total e-commerce in the United States. It has a market capitalization of $435 billion it is virtually impossible for any brick and mortar retail to compete against Amazon on price. I met with a technologist who works with one of the major financial institutions. He estimated the 30% of the bank’s home office workers – – more than 30,000 employees – – were engaged in clerical tasks transferring information from one system to another, and he believed that their roles would be automated within the next five years. In 2015, a law professor pointed out that Yale spent more of the previous year on private equity managers managing its endowment – – $480 million – – then it spent on tuition assistance, fellowships, and prizes for students – – $170 million. It's not that professors are getting paid more. It's not even all the new buildings and facilities. It's the universities have become more bureaucratic and added layers of administrators. Wow. Stronger on identifying problems than presenting solutions, but it does a pretty good job of each. The unanswered question is “how do we implement these solutions” (UBI, single payer), and how do we avoid the seemingly universal horrible execution quality of anything the US Government does. Yang’s answer would be “vote for me”, and if I could vote in the US, I’d seriously consider it. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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 dire portrait of the American economy. Rapidly advancing technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and automation software are making millions of Americans' livelihoods irrelevant. The consequences of these trends are already being felt across our communities in the form of political unrest, drug use, and other social ills. The future looks dire-but is it unavoidable? In The War on Normal People, Yang imagines a different future--one in which having a job is distinct from the capacity to prosper and seek fulfillment. At this vision's core is Universal Basic Income, the concept of providing all citizens with a guaranteed income-and one that is rapidly gaining popularity among forward-thinking politicians and economists. Yang proposes that UBI is an essential step toward a new, more durable kind of economy, one he calls "human capitalism." Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I expected a greater treatment to the possible downsides of UBI, but Yang does seem to offer it more or less as a panacea for society’s problems.
Overall, I’m intrigued and somewhat convinced, but left wanting more. Recommended read for folks skeptical of the disruptive nature of automation, or folks with a blind faith in free market capitalism. ( )