that are the heart of the Democratic Party base, communities are in steep decline because of these changes, awaiting a future that Yang - whose cultural reference game is strong - describes as likely to be “either the cultivated benevolence of Star Trek or the desperate scramble of resources of Mad Max.” Outside of cosmopolitan cities like New York and L.A. Yang in his book labels the shift the “Great Displacement” of traditional work. “It’s going to be a chaos, in my opinion. “Truck driving is the one that scares the shit out of me,” Yang tells Rolling Stone.
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Even rideshare drivers and truckers, he says, are under imminent threat from the development of self-driving vehicles. In his book, Yang writes the average mall closure results in roughly 1,300 lost jobs, and more than $22 million in lost wages. Clerical and administrative jobs are giving way to automation, food service is headed there, cashier and retail jobs are being phased out with auto-pay registers, and is speeding the closures of malls. Technological change is wiping out traditional jobs at a breakneck pace.
Instead, Yang is learning what it means to be on the wrong side of a political narrative. His steadily climbing poll numbers, intense online support network (affectionately called the #YangGang), and impressive base of 350,000 (and counting) donors (who coughed up $ 750,000 in 24 hours over the weekend) should inspire oohs and aahs among the press priesthood. Actually, if the campaign press were structured differently, he’d have a great chance. With Kamala Harris out of the race, he may soon have fifth place to himself. Amy Klobuchar and Cory Booker, the moneybags vanity run of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and a slew of once-fashionable party hopefuls now in the dustbin of primary history, like Beto O’Rourke, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Bill de Blasio. With almost no institutional support and the active disdain of much commercial press - the Schenectady, New York-born entrepreneur recently boycotted MSNBC in search of coverage “consistent with our polling” - Yang, according to poll averages, sits in sixth place in the 2020 Democratic race, earning 3.3 percent nationally.
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