Comment by Nick Vincent

I have a concrete proposal for how a data-dependence-tax-based data dividend can be updated to the 2026 context by implementing it as a “presumptive commons-rent tax that can be avoided by providing capabilities-to-data attribution.” If something like this were implemented, we would either end up in a world where companies profiting from highly capable data-dependent systems pay a large amount of aggregate funds into various national funds (or ideally a single internationally governed fund) or a world where the vast majority of upstream data flows through healthy data markets where data creators have the collective leverage necessary to get paid through a mixture of upfront and royalty payments.