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Andrew Yang Plans To Use a 3D Hologram For Remote Campaigning (nymag.com)
Andrew Yang, the presidential candidate who supports Universal Basic Income and has attracted a devoted online following, is planning to use a 3D hologram on the campaign trail. "On Wednesday he gave the #YangGang, which is what his supporters call themselves, their first look at it," reports New York Magazine. From the report: The hologram's debut came on TMZ Live, which showed a video of Yang's hologram performing a duet alongside a hologram of his "hero," Tupac. "I was doing a demo of what a hologram would consist of in order to send the hologram of me to campaign in Iowa or other battleground states," he said.
Last month, Yang spoke about his hologram plans with Iowa newspaper, The Carroll Daily Times Herald. "We are exploring rolling a truck out that would enable someone to see a hologram of me that is three-dimensional give my stump speech," Yang told the paper. "And, also, if I were in a studio, which we could set up very easily, I could beam in and take questions live." Yang also told the paper that he plans to use hologram technology to remind voters that "it is 2019, and soon it will be 2020, and things are changing."
Last month, Yang spoke about his hologram plans with Iowa newspaper, The Carroll Daily Times Herald. "We are exploring rolling a truck out that would enable someone to see a hologram of me that is three-dimensional give my stump speech," Yang told the paper. "And, also, if I were in a studio, which we could set up very easily, I could beam in and take questions live." Yang also told the paper that he plans to use hologram technology to remind voters that "it is 2019, and soon it will be 2020, and things are changing."
But when regular people want some basic single payer healthcare, oh no! "other people's money!" Healthcare is a luxury in the USA. We have the most expensive system that is also the worst performing in the industrialized world. Why? More welfare for the billionaires. They rigged the system so that we have to do business with their ripoff insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
You know what? If AOC, Sanders, Warren somehow got what they promised for all us, OUR standard of living would go up. Yes, you too.
In liberal states, they raise the taxes on the rich to fund these programs. The rich move away and the taxes received goes down. Now you have less money to spread around or you have to raise taxes on the middle class. When they raise taxes on businesses they locate overseas and American jobs are lost. You lower taxes on businesses the jobs come back. If AOC, Sanders and Warren did what they promise, jobs would go overseas and we'd have another recession, or depression if they were really effective. Look what they did with Amazon in NY. There is a reason that Obama had the lowest labor force participation rate ever and Trump has the highest in 50 years.
Maybe...for about all of a month of so, they the country would be on the precipice of being BROKE.
Even if you confiscated the entirety of the 1%'s assets, you could not fund all the free stuff AOC and crew are promoting.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
A billionaire is, by definition, contributing to a region.
A billionaire is the conduit through which much wealth is generated for society, through jobs, through innovations, etc. Even if that billionaire merely inherits his wealth, then he's either going to lose the wealth through a playboy life, or he's going to be the conduit through which learned money-managers allocate resources to productive activities.
Government TAKES wealth; it does not MAKE wealth; in a free market, where the economic activity is voluntary, that billionaire has literally proven himself to be productive to society. In contrast, your precious taxmen have proved nothing of themselves, other than the fact that they are adept at robbing people.
Your whole position seems to be dependent on the idea that the people who run governments are made of finer clay than the rest of us. Not only is history replete with counter evidence of that fact (after all, it's easier to force people to do something at the point of a gun than it is to convince them to do something voluntarily, such as buy your product), but I've got news for you: Smart, industrious, productive people who generate wealth for society (you know, those people who become billionaires) do not aspire to work in government; a government is never filled with society's best, but rather it's filled with people who depend on being able to decree their income regardless of their objectively poor performance.
And, when do billionaires become a problem? They become a problem when a government corrupts them—when billionaires get tired of being actually productive, and seek to buy some of a government's authoritarian power to force people to pay for their products instead; as always, the real problem is government; the real problem is a cultural reverence for a monopoly on the men with guns.