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Andrew Yang

entrepreneur and 2020 presidential candidate

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This automation wave will kick millions of white-collar workers to the curb in the next 12 - 18 months. As one company starts to streamline, all of their competitors will follow suit. It will become a competition because the stock market will reward you if you cut headcount and punish you if you don’t.

Andrew Yang

entrepreneur and 2020 presidential candidate

In a February 2026 newsletter post, Andrew Yang wrote that the current automation wave will put millions of white-collar workers out of work in the next 12 to 18 months, because companies that cut headcount are rewarded by the stock market and their competitors follow.

Founding Co-Chair, Forward PartyPublished February 16, 2026 · date of remarks not establishedThe End of the Office

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Now not only the process and report will be automated, but perhaps the decision as well. This will result in the great disemboweling of white-collar jobs. This automation wave will kick millions of white-collar workers to the curb in the next 12 - 18 months. As one company starts to streamline, all of their competitors will follow suit. It will become a competition because the stock market will reward you if you cut headcount and punish you if you don’t. As one investor put it, “Sell anything that consists of people sitting at a desk looking at a computer.” I’ve started to call this displacement wave the Fuckening because that feels more visceral.

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The truth is, it’s complicated. Millions of people are going to be employed for years to come. But 44% of American jobs are either manual repetitive or cognitive repetitive and many of them are going to disappear. AI is to office parks what machines were to factories in the ‘80s and ‘90s.

Andrew Yang

entrepreneur and 2020 presidential candidate

In a March 2026 newsletter post, Andrew Yang wrote that millions of people will remain employed for years to come, but that 44% of American jobs are manual or cognitive repetitive work and many of those jobs will disappear.

Founding Co-Chair, Forward PartyPublished March 23, 2026 · date of remarks not establishedWhat Jobs Are Safe?

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Every day, I get people asking me whether their job is safe or not. The truth is, it’s complicated. Millions of people are going to be employed for years to come. But 44% of American jobs are either manual repetitive or cognitive repetitive and many of them are going to disappear. AI is to office parks what machines were to factories in the ‘80s and ‘90s. A bunch of firms have come out with ratings and reports of how replaceable a job is by AI given the nature of the tasks involved. Here’s one from Microsoft, for example.

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This qualifies the scope of Yang's earlier (2026-02-16) labor forecast but does not retract it.
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We generally tax things we want less of. In this situation, we want to preserve labor in every corner and environment. So we should stop taxing labor and instead take the advice of Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, and start taxing AI.

Andrew Yang

entrepreneur and 2020 presidential candidate

In a March 2026 newsletter post, Andrew Yang recounted telling CNBC that the United States should stop taxing labor and instead take Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s advice and start taxing AI.

Founding Co-Chair, Forward PartyPublished March 16, 2026 · date of remarks not establishedTax the Bots

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Indeed, Oracle and Amazon just announced that they would likely cut more than 30,000 workers between them. One of the anchors, Becky Quick, asked me, “So what do we do?” I answered, “We generally tax things we want less of. In this situation, we want to preserve labor in every corner and environment. So we should stop taxing labor and instead take the advice of Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, and start taxing AI.” This could be used to fund Universal Basic Income among other measures.

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