Andrew Yang: Yes, Robots Are Stealing Your Job

Where is he wrong though? Self-driving trucks WILL be terrible for millions of truck drivers. Self serve fast food kiosks? Self checkout? Automation isn't coming, it's HERE, that's his point. Freedom dividend won't be a handout for the lazy paid for by the working, it's paid for by these robots putting those people out of work

Unemployment rate is one of the government's many statistical lies. Outside of the major metros, levels of unemployment and underemployment are obviously much much higher. Even in places where jobs are plentiful, 3.6% is a thick fat lie. Look at all the hobos in SF!

"does not have the right" is a value judgement rather than point of fact. If we step away from values, and return to empiricals, we already have AI that will smoke the best of radiologists. Will the radiologists be sidelined like the truckers? I'll bet money that they lobby for regulatory "protections", and get them.

To reduce this to econometrics and arrive at a "let them eat cake" policy will have undesirable second-order consequences. Letting that many people suck it is the well-worn path to an FDR (or worse), and all of the nastyness that entails.