Andrew Yang
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I've got my bunker.
You know, like, I'm just projecting forward.
Like, I have seen that degree of fatalism from many, many more folks in the Valley than I would have imagined.
And maybe I'm just someone who sees the best in people.
Like, I thought, hey, like, you know, we can do this.
And not to say that they're all like this, but I was wrong about the level of character and humanity in some of these folks.
Preach.
Yeah, people ask me all the time, why is Dario saying this?
And I think he's saying it because he believes it to be true.
And so someone asked me a number at a debate, and I said 20% to 30% in five years.
So that's a little bit lower than Dario's, but tectonic.
I mean, you have 70 million white-collar workers in this country.
And the thing that does...
frustrate me is that you realize that the numbers don't matter.
We can talk about young people heading home and the rest of it, and then the tribalism tries to translate that into, oh, what does that mean politically?
Who's on the rise?
And it's like, no, no, no, you don't get it.
So there's a broad immiseration that we're in the early innings of
And one of the single biggest learnings I've gotten over this period has been that that immiseration is not irrelevant politically, but it is not as important as you might think.
You know what I mean?