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 fingers of some. On the time, concepts like Common Fundamental Earnings felt fringe. Now Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Bernie Sanders are all saying variations of the identical factor.
An entrepreneur at coronary heart, Yang has discovered a brand new strategy to put a reimbursement into the fingers of the folks — one cellphone invoice at a time. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Fairness podcast, Rebecca Bellan talks to Yang about his startup Noble Cellular, 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 received’t transfer.
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