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Comment by Daron Acemoglu

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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. Unverified source (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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