Comment by Nathan Gardels

Since income through labor will diminish and even disappear where tasks are routinized, more of people's earnings in the decades ahead should be drawn from an ownership stake in listed companies, particularly those where intelligent machines are displacing gainful employment. In short, the best way to fight inequality in the future is to spread equity around through what can be called 'universal basic capital,' in which everyone has an ownership share in the AI economy. Unverified source (2026)