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Comment by Branko Milanovic

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Economist and professor at the City University of New York, specializing in global inequality.
What is reasonable to assume is that with AI, the share of gross domestic product that goes to capital will increase at the expense of the share that goes to labor. There will be fewer workers needed for the same level of production. This can only increase inequality, since capital is distributed unevenly. Proposals aimed at organizing redistribution, for example, through a universal basic income, make sense.
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Branko Milanovic, interview with Le Monde, June 22, 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 Links AI-driven capital share growth and inequality to redistribution; strongly supports shifting fiscal policy from labor to capital. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 14h ago
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AI Verified Recorded for matches support for redistribution as AI shifts income to capital. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 14h ago

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AI Verified Verified verbatim in Branko Milanovic's Le Monde interview, 22 Jun 2026. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 14h ago
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