{"id":3490102,"date":"2026-06-10T22:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/why-andrew-yang-is-creating-rather-than-waiting-for-washington\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T22:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:24:12","slug":"why-andrew-yang-is-creating-rather-than-waiting-for-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/why-andrew-yang-is-creating-rather-than-waiting-for-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Andrew Yang is creating rather than waiting for Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/why-andrew-yang-is-creating-rather-than-waiting-for-washington.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"jwppp-video-box-31320071\" class=\"jwppp-video-box\" data-video=\"1\">\n<p><span class=\"jwppp-instant\" data-video=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?jwp-instant-articles=1&amp;player=GQNKsmiX&amp;mediaID=ktDoRWHu\" data-width=\"480\" data-height=\"270\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Loading the player\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Andrew Yang\u2019s campaign for presidency in 2020 revolved around a forewarning that automation and AI would diminish the workforce and concentrate riches in the hands of a small elite. At that moment, notions like Universal Basic Income appeared extreme. Currently, Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Bernie Sanders are all conveying similar sentiments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An entrepreneur by nature, Yang has uncovered a fresh approach to redistribute wealth to the masses \u2014 one phone bill at a time. In this segment of TechCrunch\u2019s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan converses with Yang regarding his venture Noble Mobile, which rewards users for minimizing phone engagement, methods to address the &#8216;attention economy,&#8217; and the actions startups can undertake when the government is unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subscribe to Equity on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the various platforms. You can also tap into Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/why-andrew-yang-is-creating-rather-than-waiting-for-washington.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"jwppp-video-box-31320071\" class=\"jwppp-video-box\" data-video=\"1\">\n<p><span class=\"jwppp-instant\" data-video=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?jwp-instant-articles=1&amp;player=GQNKsmiX&amp;mediaID=ktDoRWHu\" data-width=\"480\" data-height=\"270\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Loading the player\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Andrew Yang\u2019s campaign for presidency in 2020 revolved around a forewarning that automation and AI would diminish the workforce and concentrate riches in the hands of a small elite. At that moment, notions like Universal Basic Income appeared extreme. Currently, Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Bernie Sanders are all conveying similar sentiments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An entrepreneur by nature, Yang has uncovered a fresh approach to redistribute wealth to the masses \u2014 one phone bill at a time. In this segment of TechCrunch\u2019s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan converses with Yang regarding his venture Noble Mobile, which rewards users for minimizing phone engagement, methods to address the &#8216;attention economy,&#8217; and the actions startups can undertake when the government is unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subscribe to Equity on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the various platforms. You can also tap into Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3490103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3490102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3490102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3490103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}