Success in America has nothing to do with hard work — and we’re in the middle of a ‘war on normal people’

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• America generally believes the path to success in today's competitive job climate is through hard work, regardless of one's background or hometown.
• But Andrew Yang, former CEO of Venture for America, says he received an education from Brown and Columbia not by working hard, but because he was a good test taker.
• Yang believes intelligence and efficiency have become stand-ins for human worth in America, and the average American is being displaced in the workforce in what he calls a "war on normal people."

The below is an excerpt from "The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income is Our Future" by Andrew Yang.

I recently had dinner with a friend of mine who works for a real estate investment firm. We met at a Japanese restaurant in Manhattan. After catching up for a bit, I asked him if he'd bought any fancy hotels lately — he'd gotten me a discount to one a few years ago.

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