Only go, how beautiful are you Atlanta?

Wow, why are my rallies always composed of the most beautiful people in this country?

First let's thank lacy haunted Marci Allen. Oh

That's the greatest thing is that you come to places like Atlanta you like it lacy and I actually have friends online

Then you get to meet someone in person

I have to say meeting someone in person is about a thousand times better than meeting them online. I

Highly recommend it. So if you're friends with people online, try and meet them face-to-face

Oh

Someone asked me have I been to Atlanta lot

I bet it would land a lot over the last number of years

But I have to say I've never been to this park

I never really enjoyed this place as like like someone who was here. Like I always been very transactional about my time in Atlanta

So like in and out, you know what I mean?

Like I didn't know if coming in and I just go downtown

I do some corporate meeting and then often I'd instead of turning around

But I want to spend some more time than land. I get to know you all

Because this place is tremendous and you guys keep sucking up some of my favorite people from the East Coast you

Guys, just keep on absorbing them. How many of you are all from the Northeast and you've wised up?

yeah, we know you escaped and

We envy you we're mad. And the way we're gonna show our anger is we're gonna follow you

Know so I'll make you yeah, you look gathered. I'm running for president as a Democrat in 2020

When I have not a career politician

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm a problem solver and I've been studying for the last number of years how to create jobs

I jumped in studying

I'm actually not much of a studier anymore more of a doer where I went around the country trying to create jobs in Detroit

Cleveland st. Louis Birmingham New Orleans, I started an organization called venture for America of you know a venture for America raise your head

Yeah, talk about

So I've been doing that word for the last number of years and then Donald Trump won the election of 2016

Whoo, I know some of you supported Donald Trump but it's cool because we got all sorts of people in the yang gay

People it's all good so with Donald Trump one

To me. This was the way I interpreted the results. I was like wow America is so

Hurting that we took a chance on a narcissist reality TV star as our president. I

Was like that's pretty bleak. And so I started digging into the numbers. If you go to the mainstream, press no bars. That's right

Make America think harder. Am I right?

So what are the mainstream press explanations for why Donald Trump is our president today like what do they say

You just turn down cable news. You didn't know anything. Like why would you think he won?

Electoral college

now Electoral College Russia as a matter of fact

I brought a copy of the Muller report with me and I'm going to read it to you

For a day then

I'm kidding obviously has 446 pages. We've been here all night

So it's a little electoral college

Russia

Racism

Facebook the FBI something about Hillary

These are the explanations that have been offered to us as to why America decided to go with Donald Trump in 2016

And I looked at this

myself and I said that's missing the central point that

The reason why Donald Trump is our president today is that we automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs in Michigan

Ohio

Pennsylvania where you from brother you're from here, but he still he still knows this is true

Wisconsin Missouri, Iowa all the swing states that he needed to win and did win how many of you all work in technology?

I know that there are a bunch of people here I do

Yeah, there are a lot of techies in the yang gang

So any other hand up, you know that what we did to the manufacturing workers

We will now do to the retail workers

The call center workers the fast-food workers

The truck drivers and on and on through the economy and it's not just blue collar workers. It's also white collar workers

I was just talking to a marketing Pro who tells me that a lot of marketing is becoming data and algorithms

You know, it used to be come up with a creative message now. It's like we don't need you to be creative

We're just going to test

18 of them and then the numbers will tell us which one is the best and you can just sit back. Yeah the math

And I was an unhappy corporate attorney for five months and I can guarantee you you can automate that job

So there are a lot of jobs that are gonna be subject to automation that are not just the manufacturing jobs

This is gonna rip through our economy

In a very dramatic way and Lela is one of the most prosperous cities in our country

So in many ways you all are like some of like you have different experiences with this than a lot of the country

but you know that these changes are coming in part because many of you

those of you had your hands up before you're working on making these changes of reality every day and

You see it and I have many friends who are techies and if you ask techies, hey

Do you think that we are automating away many other Americans jobs?

Most techies will say yes. Yes, we are and then if you ask hey, how do you feel about it?

Don't feel they'll say I don't feel good about it

And then if you asked you want to help me and do something about it and help prepare America

They say yes, and you guys are here today because you said yes, too. So, thank you very very much. So

These are the problems were in the third inning of the greatest economic and technological transformation in the history of the world

experts call it the fourth Industrial Revolution and

This is why Donald Trump's our president. He's the symptom

He's the manifestation and yet everyone is reacting as if he's the cause of all of these problems

He is not you don't get angry at the symptom

You cure the disease and the disease

Right now is this rampant economic insecurity that's tearing our society apart because more and more Americans are getting pushed to the sidelines

So if you're all here today, you know this about me

There's an Asian man running for president who wants to give everyone $1,000 a month

Yeah, secure the bag indeed yeah

And all three of those statements are true I am Asian

I am running for president and I do want to give everyone $1,000 a month

Now it seems awfully dramatic, but then if you dig into our country's history

You see that Thomas Paine was for it at the founding of the country called it the citizens dividend

Martin Luther King

championed it in

1967 in his book chaos our community and you can google in YouTube his lectures in

1967 where this was the focus of his activism in

1967 the year before he was assassinated in

1968 and he was not arguing alone Milton Friedman and a thousand economists

Signed a study saying this would be tremendous for America and I don't know how you feel about him

But Jamie Dimon the CEO of JP Morgan

Just this week came out and said we should guarantee every American a minimum income

So this is not some like like radical idea

This is actually mainstream political wisdom in the 60s and 70s. It passed the House of Representatives twice in

1971 under Richard Nixon of all people and

Then 11 years later one state passed a dividend where now everyone in that state gets between one and two thousand dollars a year

No questions asked and what state is that?

And how do they fund it? And what is the oil of the 21st century?

Marijuana that's right

Oh, it's technology. You had it, right?

I'm just messing with you Atlanta. No, it's technology. It's AI. It's robotics, its self-driving cars and trucks

It's big data. Is this incredible wave of innovations? That's coming down the pike

Now who's gonna win from all these innovations?

You know Amazon on a related point, why are three percent of malls and stores closing around the country Amazon?

Yeah, pretty much. This is like a test where Amazon is always the answer

Who paid zero in federal taxes last year?

That's right

so this is the quandary that we're in you have Amazon that's sucking up 20 billion dollars of

Value every year and it's pushing 30% of Main Street stores and malls into oblivion

How many of you have noticed doors closing around where you live?

Yeah, and it makes you sad but then you realize you haven't been in that store in months and you live in unusually prosperous areas

Now unfortunately being a retail worker is the most common job in the United States of America

The average retail worker is a 39 year old woman making between 10 and 11 dollars an hour and you know that she does not

Have a huge savings cushion. So what is her next opportunity going to be when the mall or the store closes?

How many of you saw the recent AI demo from Google where the AI did the job of like picking up a phone call?

And I'm making appointments you guys see that?

What do you think the time frame is on AI being able to outperform the average call center worker?

Who makes about 14 bucks an hour?

Five years two years

now

There are two and a half million call center work in the United States. So when AI can outdo

All right right. Now when you call a company and you get the bot, you're like human human human zero zero human human

Shut up. Shut up human. I didn't say thank Dory

But in three years the AI is gonna be like, hello. How are you doing? I

Need this you'll be like sure no problem. You're gonna do it. You're like, oh that was delightful

We're about two or three years away from a I actually seeming human

And when that happens, it's not going to be a problem for a thousand or 10,000 Center workers

It's gonna be a problem for a hundred two hundred

Half-a-million call center workers

So this is what the technology wave is going to do

Driving a truck is the most common job in 29 states in this country. How many people know a truck driver?

Yeah, and so I now know many more truck drivers than I than I did about 18 months ago

But when you hang out with truck drivers today

You see the reality of their job driving a truck is a very very difficult punishing job. I mean, you know what I'm talking about

but when you got when you drive a truck the truck forces you to stop driving after 14 hours because it says it's time for

You to take a nap, you know, it's time for you to go to sleep

The robot trucks don't need to stop and my friends in Silicon Valley are working on these robot trucks. They can drive themselves

Now, why are they working so hard on the robot trucks?

The most American reasons of all money a

Hundred sixty eight billion dollars in financial incentives to automate truck driving a hundred sixty eight billion with a B

Per year. So if you're an investor, you can plow hundreds of millions of dollars into

technology that waynebow might acquire because you can see that you can save tens of billions of dollars a year by automating away a

Proportion of the three and a half million truck driving jobs, and it does not just labor savings

It's equipment utilization because the truck never needs to stop its fuel efficiency because the robot trucks can convoy and then lower wind resistance

It's fewer accidents. And so you can actually make a moral arguments. Like hey investing in robot trucks could save human lives

But it's going to be a disaster

For the three and a half or at least some of the three and a half million Americans who drive a truck for a living?

and the over five million Americans who work at truckstops

Motels and diners around the country that rely upon the truckers getting out and stopping

so when I went to Washington DC with all this set of problems and as

As lazy and marseilles said I did write a book about this stuff and I'm a pretty cool guy

So I went to Washington DC and I started I'll try and sign that for you. Thank you

Um, I went to Washington DC with the set of problems

Then I said look Donald Trump's our president because we're in the midst of this fourth Industrial Revolution

We need to have real solutions

And what do you think the folks in DC said to me when I when I with this set of problems?

Come back later, don't talk to me. Who are you?

The real responses I got were number one we cannot talk about this number two, we should study that

number three, we must educate and retrain Americans for the jobs of the future and

That that third one said the supports are behind me just said it doesn't work. Who is that? Yeah, that's right, man

It doesn't work. So then I said I looked at the numbers

And

We're terrible at retraining the effectiveness rate of federally funded retraining programs is between zero and 15% a year

And when I set that to the folks in DC, you know what they said to me. They said I guess we'll get better then

And so I had to take the train back from DC

Thinking like are we this backward as a country that we can't even wake up to the challenges that somehow we're blaming immigrants

when it is not immigrants, it is technology that is causing these dislocations and

One person Washington DC said something to me that has been motivating me to this day

And I'm so glad I had someone with me because he can vouch for this conversation because it sounds like it's made it up

He says Andrew no one in Washington DC will do anything about the set of problems you're talking about

Because this town is not a town of leaders. This is a town of followers and

the only way that we will do something is if you create a wave in

Other parts of the country and bring it crashing down on our heads and that's the only way we will wake up