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Sam Altman

CEO at OpenAI

Capitalism is dependent on a certain balance between labor and capital, and if that gets totally out of whack, then the current system is not going to work.

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Sam Altman, “Building the Future of AI,” OpenAI Forum, April 6, 2026.

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Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy

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AI Verified Cited event context says to tax AI-driven work rather than human income; quote explains the labor-capital imbalance. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Recorded for matches call to tax AI-driven work rather than human income. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Verified verbatim in Sam Altman's OpenAI Forum event replay, 6 Apr 2026. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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