Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential marketing campaign was primarily based on a warning that automation and AI would hole out the labor market and focus wealth within the arms of some. On the time, concepts like Common Fundamental Earnings felt fringe. Now Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Bernie Sanders are all saying versions of the identical factor.
An entrepreneur at coronary heart, Yang has discovered a brand new strategy to put a refund into the arms of the individuals — one cellphone invoice at a time. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan talks to Yang about his startup Noble Mobile, which pays you to make use of your cellphone much less, methods to fight the “consideration financial system,” and what startups can do when the federal government gained’t transfer.
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