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Comment by Pascual Restrepo
Yale economist; Associate Professor studying automation, AI, and labor markets; frequent collaborator with Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu
As computational resources expand, wages converge to the opportunity cost of computational resources required to reproduce human work, and the share of labor income in GDP converges to zero.
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(2026)
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Year 2026 (current). The quote is verbatim from Pascual Restrepo's paper "We Won't be Missed: Work and Growth in the AGI World" (NBER Working Paper w34423 / SSRN 5697172), confirmed via web search: "...wages converge to the opportunity cost of computational resources required to reproduce human work, and the share of labor income in GDP converges to zero." Attribution to Restrepo (Yale economist) is correct. The original source_url was a Fortune press article (returns 403); since the exact technical wording originates in his academic paper, I updated source_url to the primary source (NBER w34423). The vote "for" on statement 436 ("Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy") aligns: the quote argues labor's GDP share converges to zero, supporting a shift toward taxing capital.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 12d ago
replying to Pascual Restrepo