Those seem incompatible to me.

(UBI means Universal Basic Income, giving everyone a basic income, for free)

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      I’m still not sure if he was actually in favor or just pandering, but at least he put it on the stage.

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      Yeah. I supported Yang to help popularize the idea but he’s just a wolf in sheep’s skin trying to get rich.

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        How so? I canvased for Yang in 2019, but after he dropped, I kinda just stopped thinking about him. I know he started the Forward Party, and he’s had some bad takes on homelessness, but how is he a wolf in sheep’s clothing? He apparently has a net worth of at least a couple million living in New York, but he’s in his 40’s, so that‘s not really that far off from normal businessmen.

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      I knew Yang was a fraud from the start. It was his “you have a freedom to choose between UBI and safety social nets” that made it clear to me. Took a long fucking time for other left leaning folks to catch on. He was getting way too much attention. That’s actually why I liked Michael Brooks so much. He was one of the few at the time that saw through it