Paul Krugman Slams Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang

In his private email letter, Paul Krugman slams Andrew Yang's view that automation will destroy job opportunities:

Andrew Yang has nothing on Kurt Vonnegut, whose novel “Player Piano” depicted a society in which automation has destroyed work — right in the middle of the great postwar boom, a generation during which real wages and median family income doubled. Great novelist, bad economist.

Good for Krugman.

All the Democratic presidential candidates are very bad but Yang strikes me as the most evil. He is always promoting preposterous, destructive, economic proposals as hip new plans.

If I were to be told that one of the Democratic candidates is a direct representative of the devil himself, I would bet on Yang being the one.

-RW