Comment by Windfall Trust

Universal Basic Capital (UBC) distributes ownership stakes in productive assets — such as equity in companies, funds, or infrastructure — directly to citizens, rather than relying solely on wages or government transfers to spread economic gains. [...] UBC can take many forms: publicly seeded investment funds in which all citizens hold shares, baby bonds that build capital from birth, direct equity stakes in publicly funded AI infrastructure, or even allocations of compute capacity that holders can use or sell. [...] If AI shifts the balance of economic value from labor to capital, with autonomous systems increasingly generating output that once required human workers, then wages become a less reliable mechanism for distributing prosperity. [...] UBC addresses this directly by broadening the base of capital ownership before concentration becomes entrenched.