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Silviu Pitis

Writer on AI economics, taxation, and citizen-dividend policy.

AI threatens to move income from labor to capital faster than any technology before it. Perhaps the best response is to give citizens a direct and durable claim on the capital whose returns are replacing their wages.

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Silviu Pitis, “Who Owns the AI Economy?”, July 16, 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 Pitis explicitly advocates shifting taxation toward capital and a public citizen claim on capital returns; this supports the statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Recorded for: Pitis advocates taxing capital rather than labor and returning capital returns to citizens. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Source page (2026-07-16), closing section, contains the quote verbatim and attributes the post to Silviu Pitis. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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As AI shifts income from labor to capital, we need to rethink taxation and redistribution. A levy on large firms, paid in their own non-voting shares to a public benefit trust and enforced through market access, sidesteps the failures of past wealth ...

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