How AI Is Impacting Politics & Accelerating the Need For UBI w/ Andrew Yang | EP #61

“I'm afraid that uh we don't take action until there's a disaster and the horse is out of the barn yeah um we're going to be one disaster behind on this one too I'm sure”

“AI could play a massive role in helping to educate the electorate on what's going on”

“I believe that entrepreneurs are individuals who find juicy problems building new product or service democratize it and solve that problem.”

“you succeed in five and then you liberate 10 US senators to do whatever they think is best and not be enthralled to their parties on either side”

“that's huge and that's again it's the first piece of clear and logical thinking I've heard in a while so thank you for making that um thank you for explaining that”

“so this is the infrastructure so that reasonable candidates actually can submit themselves genuinely to the American people without the massive gatekeeping function of the two Legacy parties that just want to keep everyone out”

“so this will be fun let me set the stage a little bit more so imagine there was uh an independent presidential primary where it's uh Mark Cuban The Rock Me Oprah Matthew MCC Justin Amash uh Liz Cheney Adam kininger whoever your favorite figures are I don't know if you want to throw someone into this mix Peter if I miss someone that you like is this is this they have to agree or are they being drafted uh either for the sake of this maybe maybe we'll throw Tony Robbins and Elon into the mix two holy cow so Elon unfortunately is not born in the US so there's like that that but but Tony Robbins you know Jeff Jeff scanu uh you know he's he's got the Washington Post he's building Rockets you know he's got to you know it's got to be something you he's going to go do let's throw Tony and Jeff into the mix sure and we can all vote in this primary on our smartphones say I like Tony I like Andrew I like Mark cubin and then our vote is verified via a personalized QR code that gets sent to our mailing address you scan it congratulations your vote has been verified millions of Americans are participating in actual democracy and then the Legacy parties would be left saying no none of that is real what is real is waiting to hear what 6% of Ians think in February and then millions of Californians and New Yorkers and everyone else would be like wait a minute that makes zero sense I don't give a what Ians think any other time why am I carrying this time or no offense to anyone because I love you all but like South Carolina or new I mean you could just like throw whatever the heck the early basket of States I mean went through this process only 6.5% of Ians participated in the Democratic caucus I was a part of it's probably going to be not that much higher percentage of Ians in this Republican caucus so let me get this straight um there's a process by which you raise above some threshold and I don't care if you're the Kardashians or whomever if if you want to run for president what would be the criteria for getting yourself on this digital ballot this is so fun Peter cuz those 20 people your 20 people whomever most of them know that if they ran for president as a Democrat or Republican it would be miserable you know that they would get shived the same way that we've seen let's call it Mike Bloomberg get shived or or whomever but if you got to run in this independent primary then you could genuinely make your case uh you could be positive there's not a machine trying to oppress you at every turn and Real Americans could get behind you and and vote for you in real time”

“so this is the infrastructure so that reasonable candidates actually can submit themselves genuinely to the American people without the massive gatekeeping function of the two Legacy parties that just want to keep everyone out I love it's it's the way it should be I mean we do uh you know we move millions of dollars and some people billions of dollars on bitcoin on your smartphone um you have all of your functions in life in verified fashion why not vote um that's brilliant now you've mentioned Mark cubin three times have you spoken to him about this I I I have and he is one of my uh one of my top draft picks uh for this endeavor um if you don't know check out his Cost Plus drugs I mean he's uh literally I do know the company toit yeah great stuff I mean love you mark yeah so listen I think I think this is a fantastic IC idea um and you know at this point um hopefully it's not just to being about a popular individual it's hopefully going to be being popular and being intelligent and having good policies I mean why do people why do people say this wouldn't work I mean I would imagine people say well a populist politician uh or president doesn't have the experience uh that's needed to run uh they have to rise through the ranks of you know local state and and uh Federal politics um most people have not dug into it even that deeply Peter honestly um most people just knee-jerk think well uh third party hopeless Ross perau Ralph nater uh Jill Stein etc etc now if they looked at the numbers they would see that now 49% of American self-identify as Independence almost twice as what identify as Democrat or Republican”

“Elon and um buying uh Twitter SLX now is that he thought you know this is going to be one way I can actually uh try to improve the nature of the messages that are getting out.”

“we have been trying to go back and forth on when we're going to do another podcast together on the subject of abundance and you know his first reaction is yes we're going to have full up abundance post AGI”

“the cost of living should go down while the standards of living go up”

“there's this regulatory capture that's going to make it uh rough”