Editing 8: Andrew Yang - The Dangerously Different Candidate the Media Wants You to Ignore
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'''Eric Weinstein:''' This is what I think, it's media company's choice. And we've got a situation where, my feeling is that the more the Yang Gang can findâand this goes for Tulsi Gabbard or whoever else might be sidelined by this gameâmy feeling is that what you're on right now is the equivalent of pirate radio. This is | '''Eric Weinstein:''' This is what I think, it's media company's choice. And we've got a situation where, my feeling is that the more the Yang Gang can findâand this goes for Tulsi Gabbard or whoever else might be sidelined by this gameâmy feeling is that what you're on right now is the equivalent of pirate radio. This is samizdat for the American people, and we should beâ | ||
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'''Eric Weinstein:''' Amen. Now, the thing is, we've been thinking about this paradigm from object oriented programming, which is the difference between "is-a" versus "has-a." So, if a Lamborghini can play an FM broadcast through its speaker, you could technically find out that by some definition, the Lamborghini | '''Eric Weinstein:''' Amen. Now, the thing is, we've been thinking about this paradigm from object oriented programming, which is the difference between "is-a" versus "has-a." So, if a Lamborghini can play an FM broadcast through its speaker, you could technically find out that by some definition, the Lamborghini is a radio. But that seems absurd. It's much more sane to say that it has a radio, just the way it has a transmission. We make this error, I think when we talk about workers. We say that person is a worker, they are a brick layer, or a teamster, you know? | ||
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'''Eric Weinstein:''' And that what we need to do is to readjust our model of an economic agent to a has-a model. And so the idea is that you may | '''Eric Weinstein:''' And that what we need to do is to readjust our model of an economic agent to a has-a model. And so the idea is that you may have a breadwinner, and you also have a contributor, and you also have a consumer, and therefore what it is that we do all day longâin the face of the automation that may or may not get here in dribs and drabs or come as a wave, we don't knowâthat we need to have a model of humans that recognizes a need to be active in the economy whether or not the marginal product of our labor is sufficient to take care of our family. | ||
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