Name: 楊剛を理解する｜1791 (Understanding Yang Gang | 1791)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:16:06.000Z
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Until Andrew Yang, few, if any, candidates
were talking about the rise of automation,

spiraling birth rates, and historic rates
of addiction and mental illness.

His first appearances such as those on Sam
Harris' podcast didn't generate much buzz.

At that point, he was among the unlikeliest
of candidates for the Democratic nomination.

Like many obscure figures before him, his
appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience caused

But it isn't necessarily the Democratic
base rallying around him, which is far too

busy with the politics of intersectionality.

That much is to be expected when a huge number
of people who discover you come from Joe's

It's those who have a vague sense that these
issues are on the horizon, many of whom happen

That a great number of those curious in the
candidacy of Andrew Yang aren't on the left

might come as a surprise to casual onlookers.

After all, his single-issue mission of a universal
basic income sounds a lot more like socialist

redistributionism rather than the blind allegiance
to free markets that overtook the right following

Which more or less brings us to the rise of
the #YangGang meme's newfound virality,

Yang is riding a wave similar to that of Tucker
Carlson's following his debate with Ben

As a candidate, Donald Trump captured the
same mood in a roundabout way, through is

hardline stances on immigration, his pledges
to restore manufacturing industries, and his

efforts to attack the opiate crisis plaguing
those areas of the country.

Yang goes a step further with his pledge to
tackle the opiate crisis even to the point

of prosecuting pharmaceutical executives responsible.

Trump ran on a platform of “only me.”

Repeatedly he would famously tell us that
“only he” could fix any host of problems

which have plagued the country for decades.

Beyond the appointment of judges, he's arguably
done little toward capturing the nostalgia

At this point in Trump's presidency, especially,
there's a felt sense that the country is

moving away from that vision regardless of
who is elected.

As is well understood, Trump relied upon white
American support and frustrations in order

What makes Yang a unique outlier on the left
is that he's neededly pointed out that among

white Americans deaths now outnumber births
- a clear marker of familial decline.

A 
widespread notion exists in the brainy establishment

ranks of Republicans and libertarians that
so long as we have cheap hamburgers and electronics,

American communities can just be replaced
by new immigrants.

That core communities of Americans can vanish
in the span of a few decades, an unprecedented

development in this country, without vast
social ramifications--such as the ones we're

The reasons these events are unfolding are
incredibly complex and can be traced to no

one development, but it can be said that this
isn't a viable long-term solution.

These problems can potentially be addressed
through tailored incentive structures to promote

family creation, such as those which have
been promoted by Hungary and Israel.

Trump has spent no time devoted to this subject
for some apparent reason, as though it is

without dignity to address any subset of Americans
experiencing the evaporation of their communities.

For this reason, some of Trump's previously
most devoted followers are questioning their

support of someone who looks a lot more like
George W. Bush than 2015 Donald Trump.

This became glaringly obvious after the Trump
administration's abject failure on his signature

issue, as February marked a 12 year high for
illegal immigration.

Because of a collective sense of social disintegration
and nihilism among the Trump base, the overall

rationale behind the shift to Yang simply
boils down to this: if the country will veer

in that direction anyway, we may as well strive
to not spend our days in economic insecurity--especially

if your political views lean right, which
can literally cost you your job.

But it isn't just economic concerns that
has drawn support to Yang from the right.

In response to a rising tide of technological
censorship, President Donald Trump, who far-leftists

have called to be banned on many social media
platforms--including Twitter-- is fundamentally

uninterested in addressing this issue, only
advising fellow Republicans to “be good.”

In stark contrast, Andrew Yang has gone as
far to say that social media conglomerates

should be trust-busted for their mass-censorship
campaigns.

Where you come down on that debate is besides
the point: it's obviously more favorable

to conservatives who obviously face the brunt
of censorship with no clear solution on the

It's largely for these reasons that pointing
to any one particular left wing policy listed

on Yang's website is viewed as irrelevant
by his right wing supporters.

If even under a firebrand Republican administration
the country moves leftward, spending more

than ever before, receiving more illegal immigrants
than under Obama, and seeing more technological

censorship, why should a candidate willing
to tackle the issues of censorship and job

To the people running the meme factories that
have spurred the online appeal of Yang, Trump

has failed to address these issues in any
serious way, while Yang is openly positioning

himself as the one to do it--with the previously
mentioned $1000/mo “Freedom Dividend.”

Roughly speaking, our economy is divided into
a few sectors: raw materials, manufacturing,

Because America is a highly advanced economy,
it's the service industry which produces

Obviously, this has been unprecedentedly disruptive
for communities that have historically relied

Libertarians cite these developments as being
positive; after all, they say, that signifies

that we don't have to engage in grueling
labor, and can instead focus on enjoying the

Regardless of this fact, you still have to
earn those goods by generating economic value.

If we're going to transition away from human
labor at an unprecedented rate, we must find

a new way to manage the social and economic
costs that those displaced in a matter of

You could argue, as many do compellingly,
that predictions of massive human replacement

After all, they point out, people have been
displaced by all sort of innovations (usually

pointed to is the horse and buggy), but that
isn't an argument against improving the

After all, people's sense of purpose and
meaning is in large part derived from jobs

and the feeling that they're providing for
their families, not from how cheaply they

And as many are quick to eject out of their
mouths, the rise of automation does mean cheaper

products and services, but what's missed
is the compromise that is made.

The clear compromise is a country where new
jobs that are created are, not only less cognitively