Andrew Yang

Thanks for having me, Kevin and Casey.

That's why we're beaming in from the Oval Office right now.

That's the power of a Kevin Harris article.

Dude, in my mind, we were right on time because the goal was to get ahead of it, to warn people that this was coming.

It was a freight train coming down the tracks.

You were correct.

I feel I was correct.

And I wish we were doing more right now.

As it is, AI is in position to suck shit.

Many, many office parks dry.

A lot of kids are going to go home to their parents wondering where the heck the jobs went.

And so the time to do something about this, in my opinion, was 2020.

Yeah, I dug into why I thought Donald Trump won in 2016, which is what activated me.

And I concluded that the reason he became president was that we had automated away millions of manufacturing jobs that were based in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, all states he won.

And that my friends in Silicon Valley said, hey, we're working on innovations that are going to do a number on retail workers and call center workers and eventually truck drivers.

We were in the second or third inning of the most profound economic transformation in the history of the world.

And by the time you get to inning six or seven,

It's madness.

And so that's what got me into public life.

I will confess to you all, I did not expect to become president.