On the contrary: Yang is not removing all other social programs. People would actually have the option of staying tied to a particular welfare program, or canceling it in favor of the $1/month. It would be their choice.

Again, it is libertarian, and it is liberal. Economists, both liberal and conservative, largely agree basic income is one of the most effective ways to combat poverty. (Basic income is a catch-all phrase for a lot of different ideas combined into one)

Yang has 70+ policies on his website. Collectively, they’re clearly progressive and liberal. There’s nothing more empowering that giving the disempowered money and the ability to decide what to do with it.

An extra $1000 per month would ensure that I can pay ALL of my bills each month, without ever having to strategically rotate which one will be skipped this time.

I’m glad that Yang is running simply for bringing universal basic income into the presidential realm of thought. I’m not saying he thought of it but that his ideas are being discussed when possibly they weren’t before. Hopefully it will push other candidates left on that issue.
Thank you for doing this interview.

You have a government program that gives you one used car a year?

How is basic income curated for white people?

I like Yang, he’s right the impact would be big for disenfranchised families getting 1k a month but for reparations he needs to be making it easier for black entrepreneurs to start businesses through tax breaks and incentives especially in industries that have effected the black community like cannabis.

I Love Yang! I thinks exactly what we need to bring peace during this time of division. He has real solutions and he’s not just talking Red vs. Blue polictically gang banging, lol. He’s the 1st to say and try to give everybody extra money and it’s not considered welfare because the working class gets it. The fantasy of…

his platform focuses on white people? $1000/m is something everyone could use for. he’s targetting all of the liberal White bro’s of tech giants like Facebook, google, amazon, Tesla; all businesses predominantly owned by White men, to pay VATs and other taxes for using automation and AI in stores, factories,…

I don’t recall him implying that The Freedom Dividend was a “cure-all”. Why wouldn’t $1,000 per month help all of this other stuff get figured out though? How could more money for everybody not help?

Yang has tons of ideas other than the Freedom Dividend. He will be the first to tell you it is not a cure-all; rather it is an initial step that works towards addressing everyone’s unique circumstance. You are free to do whatever you want with the 1k per month- purchase necessities, pay down debt, support family…

The house my wife and I own costs less than half your apartment monthly and we also live in California. And we’re earning equity. Clearly you should move, as the authors of these types of articles always suggest. And given you’re a writer, you could do that anywhere, so why be in SF? I actually bought the house myself …

The fuck is wrong with you.

My favorite part of the Netflix doc (besides the concert promoter in the nice crewneck sweater describing how he came thisclose to giving a stranger a blowie to get drinking water, because c’mon, how is that NOT everyone’s jaw-dropping favorite moment?) was during the company post-mortem when someone said they’d…

Shut the fuck up with your consistently bad opinion, troll.

Telling people that they are not allowed to have an opinion about R Kelly and that we should be silent because of his mythological contributions to the “that race” is as backward and anti-black woman as you can get.

And, while this wasn’t brought up in the original post, I am tired - damn tired - of the “oh, the internet is mad, again.” as if that’s the problem or as if that’s even the truth of the matter.

“What if one of the people who was assaulted by R Kelly becomes an offender? We gonna crucify them too?”

When keeping Hotep goes so very wrong.