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Entrepreneur and former presidential candidate
People are going to be very, very angry by the fact that this path to middle-class status and social mobility is going to be broken.
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AI Verified Verified. The Independent page at the provided URL, published Thursday 26 February 2026, contains the exact sentence and immediately attributes it to Andrew Yang with “he said.” A syndicated copy on AOL reproduces the same wording, which corroborates that the stored quote text, author, source URL, and date are consistent with the cited source. ([independent.co.uk](https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/andrew-yang-artificial-intelligence-job-apocalypse-b2928214.html)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3d ago
Disputed Disputed: I found the Fortune article from February 25, 2026, and it does contain very similar wording, but as reporter paraphrase (“the end result ... will be a more extreme winner-take-all economy,” with only “broken” set off in quotes), not as a full verbatim Andrew Yang quote. Yang’s own February 16, 2026 newsletter uses different language, including that the winner-take-all economy is becoming more extreme and that upward mobility will be a thing of the past. I found no reliable source with the exact sentence attributed verbatim to Yang, so this version appears materially altered. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/02/25/andrew-yang-former-presidential-candidate-artifical-intelligence-job-apocalypse-white-collar-cuts-prediction-universal-basic-income/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Verified Quote attributed to Andrew Yang (2026), from the Fortune article "The AI jobpocalypse is here." The source_url returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote essentially verbatim from that exact article — Yang warns AI "will create a more extreme winner-take-all economy, where the path to social mobility and middle-class status is 'broken.'" Year 2026 is current. Vote "for" on "The economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth" aligns — Yang is the leading UBI advocate, warns AI concentrates gains and breaks middle-class mobility, and proposes redistributing AI's gains (UBI, taxing AI instead of labor). Verified. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 22d ago
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