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Speaker 1: a dot com slash doing our part. I think the
Speaker 1: loss of community is one of the biggest consequences of
Speaker 1: automation and artificial intelligence in the way they're changing work.
Speaker 1: Used to be, you've got a lot of community from
Speaker 1: the workplace because you knew that you would have a
Speaker 1: lifelong relationship with a single employer. And that was true
Speaker 1: whether you were a blue collar worker at a at
Speaker 1: a production facility and your spouses get to know each
Speaker 1: other through the union technics, or whether you're a white
Speaker 1: collar worker at a c P A firm and you
Speaker 1: and your spouses get to know each other at the
Speaker 1: firm dinners um. That model is fading away. People in
Speaker 1: my generation are likely to change careers more often than
Speaker 1: our parents change jobs. Who was that young firebrand, Pete
Speaker 1: butter Jitch who when he talks, I think, Bob, that
Speaker 1: is really interesting, even the stuff that I don't agree with,
Speaker 1: I think that is an interesting way to present it,
Speaker 1: at least as thoughtful. Yeah and and not And so
Speaker 1: far I haven't heard him hit any of those phrases
Speaker 1: that you know he knows is complete bs and he's
Speaker 1: just throwing it out there to make everybody go yeah,
Speaker 1: which you hear from all candidates all the time. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that means he's got a better shot
Speaker 1: or no shot. I have a and that a powerful
Speaker 1: and bitter criticism of Mr butter Jig coming up a
Speaker 1: little bit later on as a candidate or his political stances. Um,
Speaker 1: his political stances. Yeah, just something I vehemently disagree with on.
Speaker 1: But you know, we'll get to that eventually. Right now, though,
Speaker 1: speaking of Pete butter Jig and another young firebrand who's
Speaker 1: getting a lot of attention on the Democrats side of
Speaker 1: the al Tiana Load joins just Tiana's a commentary writer
Speaker 1: for The Washington Examiner. Thiata welcome, how are you hi?
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. It's our pleasure. Thanks so
Speaker 1: listen to any agreement disagreement. Pete Butter j just seems
Speaker 1: like a thoughtful and sincere young man. Well, yes, certainly.
Speaker 1: I mean he's a Rhodes scholar, graduated magna cum laude
Speaker 1: from Harvard by data Kappa, served the country, he was
Speaker 1: a lieutenant in the Navy, and clearly he knows his
Speaker 1: policy shops. Yeah, unlike these like six senators who are
Speaker 1: running for president, who keep on, you know, making fools
Speaker 1: of themselves discussing was saying nineties three trillion dollar a
Speaker 1: green new deals and being unable to answer basic questions
Speaker 1: about the Medicare for All bill that they support. But
Speaker 1: a judge has been quite nuanced. And that's not to
Speaker 1: say that he hasn't proven himself extremely progressive and less
Speaker 1: doing in a way that I think scares me personally.
Speaker 1: But he's able to answer his questions understanding the minutia
Speaker 1: of the policy that he's advocating for. Yeah. Well, I
Speaker 1: look at all these things as two different things. By
Speaker 1: grading this person as a candidate because I like the
Speaker 1: sport of running for president or I discussing policy in
Speaker 1: terms of running for president, I think he is the
Speaker 1: class of the field. I don't know if that style
Speaker 1: of running for president works anymore though, so I guess
Speaker 1: that remains to be seen. Yeah, I mean, so right
Speaker 1: now is top pole that everyone's been talking about is
Speaker 1: pulling a four percent in Iowa, which is which is
Speaker 1: fairly incredible. Um. I mean, the odds of him winning,
Speaker 1: statistically speaking, are very, very very slim. Why didn't think
Speaker 1: about it? Because he's mayor of the two hundred largest
Speaker 1: city in the country. Has never elected a mayor as president,
Speaker 1: not a mayor of New York, let alone of South Bend, India.
Speaker 1: We also never we'd also never elected a game show host.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of new things that can
Speaker 1: happen reality. But I think that people forget that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump was so week because he's had about hundred percent
Speaker 1: name recognition in the country since Judge that people are
Speaker 1: just hearing about for the first time now. So listen
Speaker 1: in your piece in the Examiner and we'll have a
Speaker 1: link to it so folks can find it easily. It's
Speaker 1: quite informative. You also talk about a guy who is
Speaker 1: the number one name people tell us, guys, you've got
Speaker 1: to get this guy on and talk to him. He's
Speaker 1: running as a Democrat, but I think it'll be interested.
Speaker 1: And that's entrepreneur Andrew Yang tell us about Mr Yang.
Speaker 1: So Yang's essential premise of running is on a one
Speaker 1: tho dollar universal basic income up and pay pay out
Speaker 1: called the Freedom Dividends. And Yang's campaign is very interestingly,
Speaker 1: it's it's extremely technocratic. So you can find like more
Speaker 1: than seventy different policy proposals, ranging from a Mall Act
Speaker 1: which dedicates some six million dollars to renovating American malls
Speaker 1: or reappropriating Then theusizzle thing is is reckoning with the
Speaker 1: creative destruction of automation. And I do think it's very
Speaker 1: interesting because this is so both Bag and Yang aren't
Speaker 1: running on a lot of why people cared about Trump, right,
Speaker 1: which is just I really think a great idea, But
Speaker 1: it just talking about that on Monday, why the Mueller report.
Speaker 1: He's saying, you know, instead of talking about that, why
Speaker 1: don't why aren't we discussing why people voted for Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and and reaching out to those people. That's obviously
Speaker 1: a good idea. I mean, democratic leadership couldn't fathom the
Speaker 1: idea that maybe people voted for Donald Trump and maybe
Speaker 1: people killed Donald Trump in the primary because they were
Speaker 1: tired of the neoliberal policies that brought the country to
Speaker 1: the place you were in sixteen. They could not reckon
Speaker 1: with the idea said Hillary Clinton, which is seen nakuly
Speaker 1: that's candidate and focused on running a good candidate. Instead,
Speaker 1: they have to blame it on something. They have to
Speaker 1: blame it on a fourth outside of voter's conscience. And
Speaker 1: I say, this is someone who's just not for Trump,
Speaker 1: But I am very supportive of neoliberal free trade in
Speaker 1: a way that Donald Trump isn't. But the fact is
Speaker 1: that she resonates a lot of American But the thing
Speaker 1: that Andrew Yang gets right is that an eight percent
Speaker 1: of manufacturing jobs that have been lost in recent history
Speaker 1: hasn't been lost to trade. They've been lost to automation.
Speaker 1: And that's if people need to start reckoning less. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a really interesting point too. And I know he's
Speaker 1: all concerned about climate change and his answers deregulate nuclear energy.
Speaker 1: We need more nukes, So that's pretty unconventional as well.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't be. I mean, the original champion of nuclear
Speaker 1: power was Margaret Thatcher. And the reason why nuclear became
Speaker 1: so politicized by the least was because it was a
Speaker 1: great way of dismantling the Cool Union in the seventies.
Speaker 1: And now who is the number one champion against nuclear
Speaker 1: the renewables industry because they understand that renewable from defenses
Speaker 1: inefficient and they of acquire more government rate. Interesting. Tiana Low,
Speaker 1: commentary writer for The Washington Examiner. Tiana, you are a
Speaker 1: thoughtful woman. We enjoyed the chat very much. I hope
Speaker 1: we can do it again. Thank you, no, thank you.
Speaker 1: So listen the butter Jug and Yang thing number one,
Speaker 1: I like the feel of I really disagree with several issues,
Speaker 1: and and I really don't want them to be president
Speaker 1: for a couple of different reasons. But I find them
Speaker 1: to be thoroughly likable and decent human beings. There's no
Speaker 1: need to demonize Pete buttera Jage just because he has
Speaker 1: a rather bizarre progressive view of what freedom is, which
Speaker 1: I'll explain to you in a bit um. It's dangerous, um.
Speaker 1: But I don't think he's an insipious human being. I
Speaker 1: just think his ideas are bad, and I'm perfectly comfortable
Speaker 1: meeting him on the field of ideas and you know,
Speaker 1: going back and forth. But these two guys. Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, he's the devil's spawn again. I
Speaker 1: followed as a sport. Who's the best political animal? These
Speaker 1: guys running and talking about issues like bringing back nuclear
Speaker 1: power or or or whatever, you know, whatever issue you're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about, how to deal with the incredibly rapid
Speaker 1: change technology brings. Yeah, yeah, that Buddages was just talking
Speaker 1: about in that clip we played as opposed to the
Speaker 1: president's a racist? Is your speech right? Um? Right? Gotta
Speaker 1: be good, doesn't it. If it's not, we're screwed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're screwed. We're screwed. We're doomed if you if you
Speaker 1: can get the nomination mostly running on the other sides,
Speaker 1: a bunch of racists or evil as opposed to bringing
Speaker 1: back nuclear power, whatever issue to do is you want
Speaker 1: to argue about, sure, or just in general, our giant, bloated,
Speaker 1: idiotic federal government is doing nothing to help the American
Speaker 1: people deal with twenty one century challenges. I think that
Speaker 1: might explain that the vote for Trumps, as well as
Speaker 1: any descriptions not well, I didn't know so many Americans
Speaker 1: were racist. If you're if you're running on that, maybe
Speaker 1: I should keep my mouth shut. If you're running on that,
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