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Andrew Yang

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422 total appearances

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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

I've got my bunker.

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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

You know, like, I'm just projecting forward.

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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

Like, I have seen that degree of fatalism from many, many more folks in the Valley than I would have imagined.

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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

And maybe I'm just someone who sees the best in people.

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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

Like, I thought, hey, like, you know, we can do this.

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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

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.

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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

Preach.

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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

Yeah, people ask me all the time, why is Dario saying this?

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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

And I think he's saying it because he believes it to be true.

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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

And so someone asked me a number at a debate, and I said 20% to 30% in five years.

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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

So that's a little bit lower than Dario's, but tectonic.

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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

I mean, you have 70 million white-collar workers in this country.

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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

And the thing that does...

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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

frustrate me is that you realize that the numbers don't matter.

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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

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?

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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

Who's on the rise?

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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

And it's like, no, no, no, you don't get it.

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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

So there's a broad immiseration that we're in the early innings of

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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

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.

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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

You know what I mean?