Forward

<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER &#149; A lively and bold blueprint for moving beyond the &#147;era of institutional failure&#148; by transforming our outmoded political and economic systems to be resilient to twenty-first-century problems from the popular entrepreneur bestselling author and political truth-teller</b><br> <br><b>&#147;A vitally important book.&#148;&#151;Mark Cuban</b><br>&#160;<br>Despite being written off by the media Andrew Yang&#146;s shoestring 2020 presidential campaign&#151;powered by his proposal for a universal basic income of $1000 a month for all Americans&#151;jolted the political establishment growing into a massive diverse movement.&#160;<br>&#160;<br>In <i>Forward</i> Yang reveals that UBI and the threat of job automation are only the beginning diagnosing how a series of cascading problems within our antiquated systems keeps us stuck in the past&#151;imperiling our democracy at every level. With America&#146;s stagnant institutions failing to keep pace with technological change we grow more polarized as tech platforms supplant our will while feasting on our data. Yang introduces us to the various &#147;priests of the decline&#148; of America including politicians whose incentives have become divorced from the people they supposedly serve.&#160;<br>&#160;<br>The machinery of American democracy is failing Yang argues and we need bold new ideas to rewire it for twenty-first-century problems. Inspired by his experience running for office and as an entrepreneur and by ideas drawn from leading thinkers Yang offers a series of solutions including data rights ranked-choice voting and fact-based governance empowered by modern technology writing that &#147;there is no cavalry&#148;&#151;it&#146;s up to us. This is a powerful and urgent warning that we must step back from the brink and plot a new way forward for our democracy.