{"id":232768,"date":"2026-03-07T13:09:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/andrew-yang-ubi-before-uhi"},"modified":"2026-03-07T13:09:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:09:41","slug":"andrew-yang-ubi-before-uhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/andrew-yang-ubi-before-uhi","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Yang: UBI Before UHI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/toE56X2h0wk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Solving Job Loss, and the Future of Work ## Andrew Yang advocates for the implementation of Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a necessary solution to address job loss, income inequality, and societal unrest caused by technological advancements and AI-driven changes in the economy ## ## Questions to inspire discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Universal Basic Income Implementation.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Q: What UBI amount should be set to provide an effective safety net?<\/p>\n<p>A: UBI should be set at twice the poverty level, around $25,000 per person per year, providing enough for survival but not happiness to maintain work incentives while protecting against economic collapse.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Q: How can UBI be funded without government action initially?<\/p>\n<p>A: Well-resourced tech billionaires could fund UBI directly to local communities to keep the middle class afloat during AI-driven changes, potentially catalyzing further philanthropy and government action.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/andrew-yang-ubi-before-uhi\">Continue reading \u201cAndrew Yang: UBI Before UHI\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solving Job Loss, and the Future of Work ## Andrew Yang advocates for the implementation of Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a necessary solution to address job loss, income inequality, and societal unrest caused by technological advancements and AI-driven changes in the economy ## ## Questions to inspire discussion. Universal Basic Income Implementation. \ud83d\udd39 Q: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,39,32,1878,1490,269,2020,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-economics","category-education","category-employment","category-government","category-life-extension","category-peter-diamandis","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}