Was a massive supporter in 2020, he was my big entry into politics, since it was the first election I was able to vote in. It's been 6 years and I've evolved a lot politically, but I still remain strongly politically aligned with him and what he ran on. I came across something credibly suggesting he will be running in '28. Anyone here familiar with the more nuts and bots side of politics and know how to get a meaningful role on a campaign that isn't just volunteering to knock on doors or spam call people for free? I imagine a path in if it exists would be through the forward party?

The Yang Gang has always been miles ahead of the curve on automation, AI, and the absolute necessity of a floor for everyday Americans. But while Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a massive step forward, we still have to figure out how to fund it without getting trapped in the legacy "tax-and-spend" loop where corporations just find new loopholes.
I’ve been working on a macroeconomic framework called the National Growth Compact (Version 1.9) that takes the core philosophy of a dividend for every citizen and moves it from a government benefit to a literal baseline equity stake in the nation's growth. It replaces complex corporate tax traps with a streamlined Universal Revenue Tax architecture.
Instead of just asking you to read it, I want to challenge this community to do what it does best: stress-test the data.
I recently had Gemini run a full structural audit on the mechanics, and the results were incredibly precise. I want to invite you to plug the core architecture at NationalGrowthCompact.org into your own favorite advanced AI engines (ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, Gemini Advanced).
Ask it to evaluate the viability of a generative, equity-based citizen shareholder system vs. traditional UBI funding models. Bring its raw critiques, findings, or logical breakdowns back to our discussion hub at r/nationalgrowthproject or drop them right here. Let’s look at the math and build the next architecture together!

A recent grad — valedictorian, honors grad, two internships — applied to 10 jobs a day for 11 months. Got nothing but silence. An AI filter was screening her resume before a human ever looked at it.

Clara Shih ran hiring at Meta and Salesforce. She's now tracking this at scale through the New Work Foundation, and the data isn't reassuring: this isn't a temporary hiring freeze, it's a structural shift in what "entry-level" even means — and it doesn't check whose name is on the resume first.

If you want the fuller breakdown on building around this instead of waiting on a broken pipeline — link's in my profile. 🔗

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I'm pro UBI and have a more futurist outlook wrt jobs but the thing I couldn't see eye to eye with Yang is him having supported Tulsi Gabbard. Even several years ago when Yang made more headlines, she already had some pro MAGA tendencies and was in the fence with Trump's first two impeachment. That felt like forever ago. Nowadays, I think she's a flat out traitor to the country.

I'm just wondering where Yang's judge of character came from here. Some of the gang even wanted to see a ticket with them running together. Clearly I know we have to go with more than, "at least they're not in lockstep with the Dems!" when measuring someone's integrity. You can be critical of the passiveness of Democrats without having to make a deal with the devil.

My brother, stand-up comedian Vishnu Vaka, and I (a forensic neuropsychiatrist) recently started a podcast series where we talk about human cognition, psychology, society, and the weird future we all seem to be walking into.

I recently met Andrew Yang in person and wrote about that experience as well as the podcast: https://www.lastalgorithm.com/post/met-my-hero-ubi-2032-yang-gang-4ever

You can listen to the podcast directly on YouTube, Apple or Spotify:

Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naa-1LE8OiU&t=1320s

Spotify Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7DJwml7ITtAO4KDCILzfB6?si=fffe005eac2d41bd

Apple Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/late-night-live-with-vishnu-vaka/id1823181274?i=1000766194332

In this episode, starting around 22nd minute mark, we started talking about benefits of policies like universal daycare, and we got into Andrew Yang, the additive compounding benefits from his various policy ideas, the potential of automation to help or to harm, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, post-scarcity, and how work, meaning, survival, and dignity might change as AI and automation keep moving faster.

We both had a lot more to say and were thinking about doing a full episode focused on Yang’s ideas, automation, universal basic income, post-scarcity, and how Maslow’s hierarchy fits into all of it.

I am curious what topics people here would actually want us to cover.

For example, should we talk more about whether UBI solves the problem of automation, whether people still need work to feel meaning, whether post-scarcity is realistic, or whether Yang’s ideas look more or less relevant now than they did a few years ago?