The Relentless Andrew Yang

Remember the Yang Gang? The bros in MATH baseball hats behind Andrew Yang’s dark-horse presidential candidacy back in 2019? Yang ran on the “freedom dividend”—his proposal for a universal basic income of $1,000 a month for every American. Many wrote him off as a futuristic Chicken Little because of his predictions of mass job loss driven by automation and AI. That part of his message, at least, is now mainstream. According to a recent MIT study, nearly 12 percent of tasks in the American labor...