Episode #9: Andrew Yang and the Freedom Dividend
Necessary Bullshit Podcast
English - March 25, 2019 07:00 - 2 hours - 55.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsEducation News Politics necessary bullshit progressive libertarian conversation philosophy ideas topics education culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Josh and Ian discuss the major campaign points of U.S. 2020 Presidential candidate Andrew Yang. They start off with Yang's history and then lead into his core issue, the Freedom Dividend, Yang's version of UBI (universal basic income) and why it's necessary for increasing automation in the jobs market. They also examine Yang's interview on the Fifth Column Podcast with Kmele Foster and their take on secondary education.
At the half-way point of the episode, they introduce the details of their upcoming contest and how listeners can enter. In the second half of the episode, they get into the anti-vaxxer movement, its origins and the three kinds of push back vaccines have. They discuss vaccinations through the lens of the harm principle from J.S. Mill's essay On Liberty.
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Recorded 21 March 2019