Lauren Good: It sounds like you agree a bit with the successful tech entrepreneurs who were polled by Palo Alto Junior College regarding being liberals.
Michael Calor: No, I’m going further left than that, I’d say.
Zoe Schiffer: He sounds like he might be Yang Gang.
Lauren Good: Oh, the Yan gang. I once interviewed Andrew Yang.
Michael Calor: Andrew Yang, he was one of the first big vocal supporters of universal basic income in the political sphere, right?
Lauren Good: Yes, he really was.
Michael Calor: Well, I don’t know anything else about him, so I can’t say if I’m actually Yang Gang or not.
Lauren Good: Mike will start another third party just for UBI.
Michael Calor: Oh boy. I always say that there is no government like government.
Lauren Good: is that what you’re saying
Michael Calor: Okay, Lauren, I’ll give it back to you. Where do you think this leads in the future?
Lauren Good: I’m really struggling to tell where this is all going politically because I’m so confused by what’s going on in politics right now and I’m still trying to figure it out. I think there will be more factions of self-proclaimed libertarianism and people co-opting certain ideals from the left and right. But I think the original word is losing its meaning.
Michael Calor: Agreed. I like that new word libertarian.
Lauren Good: Yes, but once again, this is from 2020. and things are changing fast.
Michael Calor: Zoey, what about you?
Zoe Schiffer: I think we will see more privatization than before. Right now we have people like Elon Musk, who is supposed to co-head with Vivek Ramaswamy the Department of Government Effectiveness, or DOGE, and they want to get rid of the Department of Education. So I guess we’ll see private sector solutions to the things that the government used to solve.
Lauren Good: And in our next episode of Uncanny Valleywe’re going to unpack all the highly successful companies that were led by two CEOs at the same time.
