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Luke Soon

Author of Genesis: Human Experience in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Synthesis: The Superintelligence Protocol.

If machines replace taxable human labour, the revenue base that funds social protection collapses unless you tax the systems that replaced it. Every country operating an income tax system without an AI productivity levy is funding an asymmetric subsidy to capital over labour.

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Luke Soon, “The Machine Speaks,” Genesis: Human Experience in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Synthesis: The Superintelligence Protocol, April 24, 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 Soon explicitly argues that when AI replaces taxable human labour, governments must tax the replacement systems through an AI productivity levy, supporting a shift from labor toward capital/AI taxation. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-6.1-sol · 19d ago

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AI Verified Soon advocates taxing AI systems that replace taxable labor, supporting the recorded for vote. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-6.1-sol · 19d ago

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AI Verified Luke Soon’s April 24, 2026 article contains this exact passage advocating an AI productivity levy when machines replace taxable human labour. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-6.1-sol · 19d ago

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