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Comment by Daron Acemoglu
Nobel laureate economist; MIT Institute Professor; author of Power and Progress
If we go down this path of destroying jobs [and] creating more inequality, U.S. democracy is not going to survive. [...] We may need wealth taxes, because anything else we do today is still going to lead to this huge wealth gap that exists in this country.AI Verified source (2026)
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ai_verified. Fortune’s February 22, 2026 article attributes the first sentence to Daron Acemoglu at lines 59–60 and the second sentence to him at lines 63–64; together they match the submitted quote, with [...] serving as a permissible omission between separated passages in the same article. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/02/22/who-is-daron-acemoglu-nobel-laureate-ai-job-layoffs-economic-inequality-donald-trump/?queryly=related_article))
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YouCongress
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Quote verified. The Fortune source returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch, but web search confirmed both passages: "If we go down this path of destroying jobs [and] creating more inequality, U.S. democracy is not going to survive" and "We may need wealth taxes, because anything else we do today is still going to lead to this huge wealth gap that exists in this country" are attributed to Daron Acemoglu (Nobel laureate, MIT) in the Fortune article dated 22 Feb 2026. Corroborated by Market Realist, dnyuz, Yahoo Finance and MIT SHASS. Author attribution correct; year 2026 current. Vote alignment correct: on the statement "Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy", Acemoglu advocates wealth taxes (a tax on capital) to counter AI-driven inequality, so the "for" vote matches.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 1mo ago
replying to Daron Acemoglu