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The war on normal people : the truth about America's disappearing jobs and why universal basic income is our future / Andrew Yang.
Lippincott Library HC79.I5 Y349 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yang, Andrew, 1975- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Basic income.
- Poverty--Government policy.
- Poverty.
- Automation--Economic aspects.
- Automation.
- Automation--Social aspects.
- United States--Economic conditions--2009-.
- United States.
- Economic conditions.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hachette Books, 2018.
- Summary:
- From entrepreneur Andrew Yang, the founder of Venture for America, an eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes-and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the great displacement
- Part one: What's happening to jobs
- My journey
- How we got here
- Who is normal in America
- What we do for a living
- Factory workers and truck drivers
- White-collar jobs will disappear, too
- On humanity and work
- The usual objections
- Part two: What's happening to us
- Life in the bubble
- Mindsets of scarcity and abundance
- Geography is destiny
- Men, women, and children - the permanent shadow class: what displacement looks like
- Video games and the (male) meaning of life
- The shape we're in/Disintegration
- Part three: Solutions and human capitalism
- The freedom dividend
- Universal Basic Income in the real world
- Time as the new money
- Human capitalism
- The strong state and the new citizenship
- Health care in a world without jobs
- Building people
- Conclusion: Masters or servants.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-275) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780316414241
- 0316414247
- OCLC:
- 1029605633
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