Andrew Yang was right. But capitalism makes sure he’ll never win.

AI was supposed to free people. Under capitalism, it became another cage.

1. Remember Andrew Yang

I followed Andrew Yang’s campaign back in 2020. He wasn’t like the others. While most politicians fought over slogans, he talked about the future. He warned that artificial intelligence would replace millions of jobs and rewrite the rules of the economy.

His solution was simple. Universal Basic Income. A thousand dollars a month for every adult. He called it the Freedom Dividend. It wasn’t about charity. It was about time. Time to think, create, rest, and live in a world where machines do the work.

I respected that idea. It made sense. But Yang never had a real chance. The media ignored him. The Democrats dismissed him. The establishment laughed. Some blamed racism, and maybe that played a part, but there was a deeper truth. He ran straight into the wall of capitalism.

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2. Who controls AI

In this system, ownership means power. And AI is not public. It’s private. It belongs to the same oligarchs who already own everything else. They control the data, the platforms, the energy, and the politics.

AI was supposed to make life easier. Instead, it’s being used to track what we do, predict what we think, and sell us back our own time. Under capitalism, technology doesn’t free people. It perfects exploitation. Every click, every second of attention, every piece of data becomes a product.

The few who own AI now control the future. They decide who wins, who works, and who disappears. That is not progress. That is digital feudalism in motion.