Why We Obsess Over AI Winners and Ignore the Wreckage

Source: Andrewyang

Andrew Yang identifies a structural blind spot in tech coverage: the startup ecosystem and venture media systematically amplify winning companies while rendering invisible the displaced workers, failed ventures, and communities absorbing the costs of automation. The visibility problem is baked into how innovation gets narrated, where scale-ups get million-dollar profiles but a factory closure in Ohio doesn’t crack the same publications. The stakes are political, because policy gets written by people who’ve only read the success stories.