Why is Andrew Yang building instead of waiting for Washington?

Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign was based on a warning that automation and artificial intelligence would hollow out the labor market and concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. At the time, ideas like universal basic income seemed fringe. And now it’s Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Bernie Sanders Saying versions Of the same thing.

An entrepreneur at heart, Yang has found a new way to put money back into people’s hands – one phone bill at a time. In this episode of TechCrunch justice Podcast, Rebecca Bellan talks to Yang about his startup Nabil’s mobileWhich pays you to use your phone less, ways to combat the “attention economy,” and what startups can do when the government doesn’t act.

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