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Bernie Sanders has two policy proposals that are troubling: $15 minimum wage and the federal job guarantee program (JG). The first will push companies to automate faster, eliminating jobs, while the latter will help push everyone into government jobs.
If successful, I think this would mostly eliminate the private sector. So, Sanders 2.0 is actually a socialist rather than just a social democrat. This sort of socialism harks back to Louis Blanc and his JG idea from "The Organization of Labour."
But, it's a shitty form of socialism that, in the face of automation, perpetuates wage-slavery and never leads to anything like Fully-Automated Luxury Communism. By perpetuating wage-slavery, it basically perpetuates capitalism under a socialist guise.
What we need is a universal basic income, funded by land value tax at first but later by taxing industry. After all production has been automated and labor rendered obsolete, then tax profits because machines/computers/algorithms /IP will be the new land ("means of production").
Policywise, Andrew Yang is better. Nevertheless, I don't like his idea of funding basic income via VAT. Although, if lower income folks are exempted (as I've heard him suggest), rendering it more progressive, then I've got fewer objections.
