(07-24-2019 09:02 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(07-24-2019 06:22 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Yang's Freedom Dividend (universal business income) concept is odd - I'll grant you that. But he has some decent ideas besides that. And if you're going to discount his business background, you're nuts. He helped form a startup .com business in 2000, then was the VP and third hire for a healthcare software startup. Then in 2006 he became president of Manhattan Prep, a GMAT prep company later acquired by Kaplan. Then in 2011, he founded Venture in America which is still in service today with about 30 employees.

He did all that without any help from pops, which is something you can't say about either Bush or Trump.

Yep I took a loan from my pop to get my side stuff started. Glad to know that you seemingly dump on that notion.

I didnt do as well as Papa Bush with his start.

By the way, look up how Robert started *his* web page builder business as well. A phrase that rhymes with 'poan from lops' kind of comes to mind.

Just saying that Yangs 'lets give everyone 1000 dollars' is the simple fing pandering that permeates the left. Sound like smart business? That is aside from the business of of buyig votes that is.

The general concept of UBI isn't pandering - it's an actual economic policy that many are interested in to help address issues created from the evolution of the workforce. As was mentioned, Yang sees it as a way to deal with some of the side effects of workforce automation.

I'm not saying that it is necessarily the right answer, but it isn't pandering.