It is the year 2023. You are climbing into your Tesla Cybertruck to drive to your local small town “entrepreneur and bitcoin enthusiast” meetup event where you will get to listen to a business seminar lead by Pewdiepie. You turn on the Cybertruck self-driving capabilities and pull up some Dave Chappelle standup videos from YouTube onto the central console. As you laugh at his joke about there being so many genders now he can’t decide whether he believes in human rights, you get a notification on your phone.

You’ve just received your Freedom Dividend in your USA Blockchain Wallet. You’re now 2000 YangBucks richer which are worth $900 on Coinbase. Hey, at least they’re not worth $800 like last month. The Yang administration has been trying to curb the rate of inflation caused by the introduction of their UBI plan through new value added taxes and increasing the amount of YangBucks people receive which were originally pegged at the value of $1. You look back onto the road. Airpods are strewn all over the street. It’s too late. The Cybertruck careens back and forth until it tips over. You shed a tear at the thought you may die before ever playing with the new Pickle Rick skins on Fortnite you were going to buy with your YangBucks or share the newest Pepe meme you were making to your gaming clan.

Yang Gang the Blockchain

The Democratic primary election will elect the Democratic nominee to likely run against Donald Trump in the US general election this year. Andrew Yang is one of these nominees polling around 4% nationally. In short he’s a tech entrepreneur who sold a company and then used the money to fund Venture for America, an organization that tries to create the next Gates, Bezos, and Musks with a focus on parts of the country that have not fared well during the last 50 years of American Capitalism. He’s the guy you may have heard pushing for the “Freedom Dividend” or a Universal Basic Income (UBI) for all Americans of $1000 per month. His reasons for proposing such an idea is that technology will soon start displacing a large amount of workers due to automation and therefore the government can tax the use of robots to provide some financial relief in the form of $1000 per month.