This article by Andrew Yang is really sad. It's a blizzard of claims and facts designed to avoid confronting the simple fact that the data don't back up the central claim of his campaign 1/ nytimes.com/2019/11/14/opi…
If rampant automation were destroying millions of jobs, productivity — output per remaining worker — should be soaring. It isn't; productivity growth has actually slowed 2/ bls.gov/lpc/prodybar.h… 
If Yang has an argument about why the data don't mean what they seem to mean — an actual argument, not "I've talked to workers and they're scared" — he should lay it out 3/
