People who think like this are really mentally defective.
Or just con men.
What this guy is doing is boiling socialism down to its simplest form. In other words, don't give away free stuff. That's too complicated.
Just give away free cash and let the idiots buy their own stuff.
Andrew Yang knows that socialism is a con game. He's must making it baby simple so as to appeal to the greatest possible audience.
BTW, as a businessman, Andrew Yang knows that more cash chasing the same amount of goods causes prices to rise enough to eat up that extra cash.