Imagine you own a home with a nice big front yard. One day, a man walks up to your door and asks for one of the little rocks from your yard. “Sure!” you say. “I won’t even notice.”

So the man takes one tiny little rock, and leaves.
The next day, he asks for some more of them. “Sure!” you say again. “Take all you want and do whatever with them. I don’t care.”

So the man takes some more tiny little rocks.It turns out those rocks were GOLD nuggets.

Soon, he is back with big digging equipment. He sets up a mine in your front yard, digging under the foundations of your home. So you go to the police.

They say, “You gave him permission, and told him to take whatever he wanted. We can’t help you. You said ‘I Agree to the Terms and Conditions,’ and that made it a contract.”

You go to the man taking your rocks/gold. “Can’t I at least get some money to pay me for the gold you’re taking from me?” you ask.

He laughs at you. “You’re an idiot! You GAVE me this gold. You GAVE me permission to undermine your home’s foundation and screw you over. I’m making billions and BILLIONS of dollars by mining your gold. Why would I give you anything now?”

You sit down on he curb, depressed and heartbroken.

After a long time of this, along comes a nerdy Asian guy who says that he might not be able to get you the billions of dollars right away, but he CAN get you $1,000 a month for life, by taxing the man who is taking your gold (instead of taxing YOU, like the other politicians have been doing).That nerdy Asian guy’s name is #AndrewYang, and that “gold” is YOUR data, that companies are profiting off of and not paying you one red cent for.

This is how we can pay for #UniversalBasicIncome (#UBI).

Welcome to the #FourthIndustrialRevolution.