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Yang's own September 2026 newsletter frames his response to AI job disruption as broad redistribution or universal basic income; this passage does not state that he predicted a huge resurgence of the trades. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Labor on the Run · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:cc3a48e0967aa53f877f1c8b3c48bee051034ac445d02503f4674f8a9ab19ba6

I would summarize the challenge as this: “How do we get the American economic system working for the vast majority of its people even as AI arrives and begins decimating jobs?” ... If you follow me, you know that my answer is to distribute the gains of technological advances quickly and broadly to the American people through a dividend or universal basic income.