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- Andrew Yang is running for president in 2020 as a Democrat (https://www.yang2020.com). In this video, he discusses the greatest challenge of our time: automation and human-centered capitalism.

- Currently, a person's value is linked to the economic value of their job. So the soon-to-be-extinct coal miner should find new purpose by becoming a software coder, right?

- That's shortsighted, says Yang. One day soon, even the best coders will be outpaced by AI. We need to prepare for the inevitable future by shifting how we fundamentally think about human value.

Yang's latest book is The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future

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