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Andrew Yang writes a well thought out piece on the issues facing America today and gives a suggested solution in the form of Universal Basic Income. There were 2 things that stood out to me about his book, 1) the growing disillusionment of the young male population, and 2) what it means to be normal and the bubble many elites live in. Communities of angry young men is nothing new, but in the last 10 years they have had a explosion of growth as people retreat from social interactions and just give up with a nihilistic air to them (groups like MGTOW or TheRedPill are great examples). Yang addresses the man child that sees no future when he points to what many online communities of angry men preach, more women graduate from college, it's hard to climb up unless you were born into it, let's just give up, and etc etc. He further notes how this damages our social fabric, from the increasing drug usage to decreasing marriage rates to decreasing civic engagement. The disillusionment as mentioned is talked about, but recognizing the desire to retreat into video games was a relate-able feeling that other leaders have not talked about. But despite the growing problem within people outside of the intellectual class, we as a country live in a divided world such that while only ~30% of Americans have bachelors degrees, if we have a Bachelors degree ourselves, chances are we only know people with bachelors degrees as well. He further notes that the elites in our country that went to MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and etc go to work in the same places and the same companies and hang out with each other further segmenting themselves off from society. This is self-evident in the last election where many liberal Americans were caught blindsided by the Trump win that tapped into a large vein of discontentment. Yang clearly illustrates and trends and diagnoses the problems, his solution he puts forward will stand debate over the coming years as I suspect it's not the last we hear of it. What is clear is that the issues he outlines are undeniable and need to be addressed with new ideas as opposed to more of the same.