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A nation should fund a citizens' dividend from AI windfall profits

Key insights

Supporters and opponents alike often assume AI could significantly reshape work and concentrate gains; they diverge mainly on whether direct cash, training, or broader welfare measures are the right response.
A recurring disagreement is definitional as well as substantive: many supporters frame the idea as public ownership or a social dividend, while several critics treat it as unconditional basic income.
Even among supporters, there is no single funding model, with proposals ranging from taxes on profits or revenues to equity stakes, royalties on data or knowledge, and levies on compute or AI use.
Institutional design is a major fault line, as advocates call for independent funds insulated from day-to-day politics while critics warn about capture, feasibility, or conflicts with market principles.
Some of the more cautious voices do not reject gain-sharing outright but prefer modest starts, pilots, further study, or expansion only if severe labor-market disruption appears.

Arguments for

Countering capital concentration

Proponents argue that AI is likely to shift income from labor to capital, so owners of productive assets would capture most of the gains while workers face displacement or stagnant wages. A citizens' dividend is presented as a way to give everyone a stake in AI-driven wealth and reduce worsening inequality.

If AI shifts income from labor to capital, that assumption fails, and it fails just when displacement makes the safety net most necessary. This paper develops a legal and economic framework for a response that matches the problem: a sovereign wealth fund holding a claim on the ca…

Arvin Prativadi · Aug 21, 2026 · full quote
As automation and AI increase the returns to capital, a growing share of wealth will flow to those who own productive assets rather than those who rely mainly on wages. The Common Wealth Fund would help Canadians share in the upside of technological progress by giving every citiz…

Common Wealth Canada · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
If the wealth generated by artificial intelligence will accrue only to the owners of AI companies, then the way to avoid catastrophic levels of inequality is to give everyone an ownership stake in those companies.

Rogé Karma · Jul 2, 2026 · full quote
What is reasonable to assume is that with AI, the share of gross domestic product that goes to capital will increase at the expense of the share that goes to labor. There will be fewer workers needed for the same level of production. This can only increase inequality, since capit…

Branko Milanovic · Jun 22, 2026 · full quote
The American Dividend Plan makes sure the gains from automation and AI are shared with the workers who make our economy run. Today, investors and large companies capture the benefits of rising productivity while many workers face stagnant wages and job disruption. This plan resto…

Ron Kincaid · Mar 31, 2026 · full quote
At its core, the AI Dividend is simple: if AI dramatically increases productivity and concentrates wealth, the American people have a stake in those gains. [...] It's a way to ensure that if AI transforms the economy, it strengthens the country, not just the balance sheets of a f…

Alex Bores · 2026 · full quote

Public wealth fund model

Many supporters favor a sovereign or public wealth fund, often capitalized through taxes, stock, or ownership stakes in AI firms and infrastructure. They argue that this converts AI windfalls into durable, scalable payouts that can grow with AI's advance and continue across generations.

National Dividend Funds: Public ownership stakes in AI infrastructure and companies, distributing the resulting profits as direct cash payments to all citizens. [...] Because the fund's payouts grow with the value of its holdings, the mechanism scales naturally with the size of t…

Windfall Trust · Sep 14, 2026 · full quote
We proposed that a sovereign wealth fund be created and managed in trust for the public, with every American receiving a check from this fund annually. The fund would be capitalized by a tax on AI firms paid in stock, not cash.

Jeremy Bearer-Friend · Aug 3, 2026 · full quote
Public Wealth Fund. Create a Public Wealth Fund that provides every citizen—including those not invested in financial markets—with a stake in AI-driven economic growth. While tax reforms help ensure governments can continue to fund essential programs, a Public Wealth Fund is desi…

OpenAI · Jun 9, 2026 · full quote
Establishing a true sovereign wealth fund, bankrolled by the wealth creation of AI, offers a more practical pathway. If a tax on AI equity offerings or revenues were channeled into such a fund – much like a share of oil royalties – that money could be invested broadly and across …

Sarah Keohane Williamson · Jul 30, 2026 · full quote
Altman’s choice of the Alaska Permanent Fund is no accident. Alaska created the fund in 1976 to turn a finite oil windfall into a lasting income stream. The fund now holds roughly $91 billion and has paid every eligible Alaskan a dividend every year since 1982, including a $1,000…

James Broughel · Jul 4, 2026 · full quote
I propose Citizens' Equity, a simple mechanism wherein corporations contribute fractions of their capital liabilities to a sovereign fund issuing one share to each citizen.

Mark Garman · May 1, 2026 · full quote

Income security and transition

Backers say that if AI causes large-scale job loss or prolonged disruption, direct payments can provide a cash floor, income replacement, or support during transition. They describe a dividend as an insurance policy or social-contract safeguard rather than waiting until harms are fully realized.

If AI causes unprecedented levels of unemployment, the policy challenge will shift from providing temporary transition support to sustaining income replacement for a large share of the workforce. We’ll need new sources of tax revenue, and new ways of sharing this broadly, which m…

Anthropic · Jun 2026 · full quote
“The better answer is direct and practical: build a universal cash floor, funded in part by the AI-era wealth that public knowledge and public infrastructure helped create.”

Tyler Prochazka · Jun 7, 2026 · full quote
To address this, I propose the establishment of the National AI Equity Fund. This fund is a necessary safeguard to maintain the integrity of our social contract. It is a strategic surplus transfer from enterprises which benefit immensely from AI back to Singaporeans to facilitate…

Gerald Giam · May 6, 2026 · full quote
At its core, the AI Dividend is simple: if AI dramatically increases productivity and concentrates wealth, the American people have a stake in those gains. [...] You don't take out fire insurance because you expect your house to burn down — you have insurance in case something go…

Alex Bores · Apr 20, 2026 · full quote
Universal basic income could be financed through taxes on relevant companies.

Dario Amodei · Jun 17, 2026 · full quote
We realized that financial stability during the job search is of critical importance if they are to continue pursuing the career path they have invested time and energy training for.

Kaitlin Cort · Mar 24, 2026 · full quote

Public claim on AI inputs

Another case for a dividend is that AI profits draw on public infrastructure, education, energy, institutional stability, human knowledge, data, and past public investment. On that view, part of AI's returns should flow back to citizens through royalties, taxes, or dividends because the underlying inputs were collectively created.

Meanwhile, AI companies are training their models on the knowledge of billions of human beings. [...] To turn this concept into policy, policymakers could classify human knowledge itself as the capital AI utilizes and require AI companies to pay royalties into a trust that issues…

Mary Bogle · Mar 23, 2026 · full quote
Rather than treating AI and data-driven profits as a private windfall, governments should tax the use of data and the rents from highly profitable digital and AI firms, and return that money to people as a regular dividend. You are contributing your data into the system; you get …

Betsey Stevenson · Jan 30, 2026 · full quote
The fruits of the AI infrastructure era are not the outcome of individual companies alone, but are built on the industrial foundation that the entire nation has accumulated over the past half-century. [...] Part of those fruits should be structurally returned to all citizens. Tha…

Kim Yong-beom · 2026 · full quote
La propuesta surcoreana de repartir entre todos los ciudadanos una parte de los beneficios extraordinarios generados por la inteligencia artificial tiene algo de provocación, pero también de diagnóstico certero: si la nueva riqueza se genera usando infraestructuras, educación, da…

Enrique Dans · May 15, 2026 · full quote
Following the Alaska Permanent Fund and Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund models, governments must acquire equity stakes in AI infrastructure companies — creating funds whose dividends are distributed to citizens. AI training data was generated by the public commons. Treating that …

Luke Soon · Apr 24, 2026 · full quote
Beyond the tax code, governments hold other levers to give workers a stake in AI’s gains. They can reward firms that fund support for displaced workers; levy surcharges on AI consumption or on the power drawn by large-scale compute and data centers; treat human knowledge as the c…

Bhaskar Chakravorti · Jun 25, 2026 · full quote

Arguments against

Work incentive concerns

Opponents of universal cash argue that it pays people not to work, fosters dependency, and weakens the norm of contribution before reward. In this view, AI does not justify reviving a policy they see as an old and harmful idea.

The reason universal basic income doesn’t work—well, I guess you have to define what you think success looks like. There have been many studies and many experimentations on universal basic income, so it’s not a new idea. It’s an idea that’s been tested a lot. What it does is laye…

Paul Ryan · Sep 2, 2026 · full quote
Artificial intelligence has become the latest excuse for reviving one of the oldest bad ideas in economic policy: a universal basic income. [...] AI will change work. It will not repeal economics. The best response is not fear-driven universal dependency.

Vance Ginn · Mar 20, 2026 · full quote
Basic Income attempts to pay people under what should probably be called the l’Oréal Principle (“because you’re worth it”). They want to be paid first and then perhaps do something later if they feel like it. That is a complete reversal of the principle of contribution. Everywher…

Neil Wilson · 2016 · full quote

Better uses for surplus

Critics say redistribution alone is not enough and that any AI surplus would be better spent on upskilling, targeted help, or strong public services. They object to equal payments regardless of need when other social protections and unmet harms still require attention.

Redistribution alone is insufficient if workers are excluded from the economy. [...] The better use of any surplus generated by AI adoption is to fund accessible and effective upskilling that amplifies Singaporeans’ value.

Tan See Leng · May 6, 2026 · full quote
The approach here resists utopian assumptions of unlimited resources or models like Universal Basic Income (UBI), Universal Basic Capital (UBC), and mechanisms based on the Alaska Permanent Fund that would seek to exhaust any revenue raised from AI productivity gains through equa…

Gene Sperling · Jan 21, 2026 · full quote
It took a lot of effort to achieve some basic rights, and now neoliberalism is destroying everything: the education system, health care... By giving money to each citizen you are transferring responsibility from the State to the people, so that they can manage as best they can. I…

María Pazos Morán · 2016 · full quote
UBI does not alleviate poverty and turns social necessities into products for profit. To truly address inequality we need adequate social provisioning. If we want to reduce means testing and dependency on capitalist employment, we can do so with capacity planning. Our political d…

Dmytri Kleiner · 2016 · full quote
To replace a social security system primarily financed by contributions and based on wage solidarity with a rent paid by the Government and financed by tax income seems a war machine against the welfare state. In addition, an income provided unconditionally to anybody can only be…

Mateo Alaluf · 2016 · full quote

Governance and feasibility risks

Some argue that government taking stakes in AI companies and then redistributing the earnings would be politically difficult and could compromise the state's independence as a regulator. They also doubt such arrangements would meaningfully rescue a weakened labor market.

Still, it’s difficult to imagine a future in which our dysfunctional Congress passes a law to take a stake in AI companies, and then the government seamlessly redistributes the earnings to the rest of us. And regardless, such arrangements are unlikely to save a flailing labor mar…

Lila Shroff · Jul 9, 2026 · full quote
The federal government is really the only entity powerful enough to be a real check on these companies. If they become joined at the hip, that check goes away. It can easily become a form of regulatory capture.

Samuel Hammond · Jul 2, 2026 · full quote

Anti-market and premature

Another line of criticism portrays a national AI dividend as anti-market, socialist, or populist. These critics also stress that AI is still young and its profit trajectory uncertain, making sweeping redistribution commitments premature.

Going one step further from the performance bonus demands and strikes by vested-interest unions at major companies such as SK hynix and Samsung Electronics, the Blue House policy chief is now arguing for a 'corporate profit distribution system' that would simply hand out corporat…

Park Su-young · May 12, 2026 · full quote
[The national dividend proposal is] an anti-market idea that goes against market principles and is no different from socialist-style distribution.

Jeong Hee-yong · 2026 · full quote
[The proposal to pay all citizens a dividend from AI and semiconductor windfall profits] is a populist idea driven by an obsession with immediate votes and an act that shakes the foundation of the free market economy.

Koh Dong-jin · 2026 · full quote
[On proposals to redistribute AI/semiconductor windfall profits to citizens through a national dividend:] AI is a very young technology. We don't know exactly which way it's going to go. We don't know how well the semiconductor producers are going to fare in the future.

Peter Howitt · 2026 · full quote
One-time cash payment is no solution to widening inequality.

The Korea Times Editorial Board · May 13, 2026 · full quote

Middle ground

Complement, not centerpiece

Some supportive voices present profit sharing as one tool within a broader response that may also include retraining, changes to work, guaranteed employment, or wider safety-net reform. They favor keeping the idea available without treating it as a complete answer on its own.

Profit sharing can be one tool among many, and the sooner we treat it that way, the sooner we get to the harder work that actually matters.

Kevin T. Frazier · Jun 22, 2026 · full quote
Livelihood risks—together with the potential for AI-powered benefits—are significant and sweeping enough to warrant a rethink of the role and footprint of human labor, wealth or “gain” sharing, and the social contract. This includes, but need not be limited to, everything from th…

Xavier de Souza Briggs · Jun 29, 2026 · full quote
“Undoubtedly we’re going to have to think really carefully about how we soft-land those industries that go away, so some sort of [universal basic income], some sort of lifelong mechanism as well so people can retrain.”

Jason Stockwood · Jan 29, 2026 · full quote

Phase in with caution

A more cautious camp favors starting modestly, piloting, or scaling only if AI-driven job scarcity or other disruption becomes severe. These voices emphasize tentative exploration, academic study, and broad public consensus before a full national rollout.

[The] Digital Dividend [...] is a small universal cash benefit financed by a tax on the digital sector, and serves as a scalable pathway toward higher unconditional income support, should economy-wide job scarcity materialize. The Digital Dividend starts small, and the tax that f…

Ioana Marinescu · 2026 · full quote
Given the massive new wealth that will emerge from the grand AI transition, we might be able to combine it with, for example, something like basic income. I am considering it as one idea.

Kim Min-seok · Jun 24, 2026 · full quote
Rather than doing something immediately, it would be better first to have academic research and examination, and then apply the scholarly findings to reality. It is an issue that, in the later legislative process, must win public consensus and fully reflect diverse opinions.

Jung Chung-rae · May 13, 2026 · full quote
Design the AI dividend. Pilot in 2030, full scale in 2032. WHY: a safety net for the post-work era.

Maksymilian Kuśmierek · Mar 2026 · full quote
This is modest by design… to provide a tangible signal that every Singaporean has ownership in our shared future.

Gerald Giam · May 6, 2026 · full quote

Supporters largely converge on the idea that AI may concentrate wealth and that some of that upside should flow directly back to the public, but they propose different vehicles for doing so, from taxes and royalties to equity stakes and sovereign funds. Opponents focus less on denying disruption than on questioning universal cash as a response, warning about incentives, governance, targeting, and market legitimacy. The debate therefore remains unsettled not only on whether to share AI windfalls, but also on how to structure that sharing and what other policies should accompany it.

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Guillermo Valencia
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A country must capture value before it can distribute value. Countries that own productive assets may have more resources to cushion disruption. Countries that mainly consume the technology could face pressure on employment without receiving comparab...
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AI could make the world a whole lot richer. But it could also put millions of people out of work while funneling even more wealth into the pockets of just a few tech giants. [...] The proposal is to tax AI companies’ profits or revenue and use the pr...
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Nonprofit organization developing policy proposals to ensure the economic benefits of transformative AI are broadly shared.

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National Dividend Funds: Public ownership stakes in AI infrastructure and companies, distributing the resulting profits as direct cash payments to all citizens. [...] Because the fund's payouts grow with the value of its holdings, the mechanism scale...
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The proceeds - cash, shares, warrants, royalties and other assets - should then flow into the National AI Dividend Fund. [...] The dividends from this fund should then capitalise new universal savings accounts for every young person.
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Chen Chi-mai
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Chen also expressed support for President Lai Ching-te’s announcement that the benefits of Taiwan’s “AI dividend” would be shared with the public through a universal NT$10,000 cash payment next year. He noted that Taiwan has benefited from the AI ind...
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University of Texas at Austin economics and public-policy researcher; author of a 2026 working paper on an AI sovereign wealth fund and universal dividends.

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If AI shifts income from labor to capital, that assumption fails, and it fails just when displacement makes the safety net most necessary. This paper develops a legal and economic framework for a response that matches the problem: a sovereign wealth ...
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受惠人工智慧（AI）產業蓬勃發展，帶動經濟成長及稅收增長，為使經濟成果與全民共享，116年度中央政府總預算案財政部歲出中編列2,357億元辦理普發現金每人1萬元，在實質零舉債及財政穩健基礎下，兼顧財政紀律，讓「AI紅利，全民共享」。
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We have decided to add NT$235.7 billion in expenditures to provide NT$10,000 in cash to each person next year, so the 'AI dividend can be shared by all.'
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And we need to close tax loopholes for billionaires — and crack down on data centers and establish an AI dividend to ensure that AI doesn’t become the next arena where billionaires write the rules for the rest of us.
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We proposed that a sovereign wealth fund be created and managed in trust for the public, with every American receiving a check from this fund annually. The fund would be capitalized by a tax on AI firms paid in stock, not cash.
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Establishing a true sovereign wealth fund, bankrolled by the wealth creation of AI, offers a more practical pathway. If a tax on AI equity offerings or revenues were channeled into such a fund – much like a share of oil royalties – that money could b...
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At that point, the government can tax the “winners” and redistribute the money to everyone else.
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Silviu Pitis
Writer on AI economics, taxation, and citizen-dividend policy.

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As AI shifts income from labor to capital, we need to rethink taxation and redistribution. A levy on large firms, paid in their own non-voting shares to a public benefit trust and enforced through market access, sidesteps the failures of past wealth ...
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The United States government should acquire equity stakes of twenty to forty per cent in the frontier AI laboratories, through grant conversion, compute provision, or direct purchase, on the template already in use. Returns accrue to a sovereign fund...
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Canadian public-policy organization advocating public wealth funds and broad sharing of technological gains.

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As automation and AI increase the returns to capital, a growing share of wealth will flow to those who own productive assets rather than those who rely mainly on wages. The Common Wealth Fund would help Canadians share in the upside of technological ...
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Altman’s choice of the Alaska Permanent Fund is no accident. Alaska created the fund in 1976 to turn a finite oil windfall into a lasting income stream. The fund now holds roughly $91 billion and has paid every eligible Alaskan a dividend every year ...
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If the wealth generated by artificial intelligence will accrue only to the owners of AI companies, then the way to avoid catastrophic levels of inequality is to give everyone an ownership stake in those companies.
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AI policy advocacy organization promoting democracy, shared prosperity, and safety.

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Citizens’ Dividend: A regular, unconditional cash payment funded by a fair public share of AI-driven gains. We call on lawmakers to publish a costed plan that explains funding, eligibility, delivery and how it works alongside existing support.
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Livelihood risks—together with the potential for AI-powered benefits—are significant and sweeping enough to warrant a rethink of the role and footprint of human labor, wealth or “gain” sharing, and the social contract. This includes, but need not be ...
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Dean of global business at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; founder and chair of its Digital Planet research program.

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Beyond the tax code, governments hold other levers to give workers a stake in AI’s gains. They can reward firms that fund support for displaced workers; levy surcharges on AI consumption or on the power drawn by large-scale compute and data centers; ...
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Kim Min-seok
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Given the massive new wealth that will emerge from the grand AI transition, we might be able to combine it with, for example, something like basic income. I am considering it as one idea.
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There's this idea of like, okay, what happens when robots are ubiquitous? Are they gonna, you know, cause the lack of work and whatever? And what's suggested for this is like, a standard universal basic income, which I think is the wrong thing to do ...
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Profit sharing can be one tool among many, and the sooner we treat it that way, the sooner we get to the harder work that actually matters.
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Branko Milanovic
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What is reasonable to assume is that with AI, the share of gross domestic product that goes to capital will increase at the expense of the share that goes to labor. There will be fewer workers needed for the same level of production. This can only in...
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Profit sharing can be one tool among many, and the sooner we treat it that way, the sooner we get to the harder work that actually matters.
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[...] and that is why, just last week, I introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. This legislation would give the public a direct ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America. It would allow the American people, through their g...
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Paul Ryan
Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; co-chair of the Commission on Artificial Intelligence and the American Workforce.

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The reason universal basic income doesn’t work—well, I guess you have to define what you think success looks like. There have been many studies and many experimentations on universal basic income, so it’s not a new idea. It’s an idea that’s been test...
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Winston Ma
Adjunct professor of law at New York University and author on law, finance, and artificial intelligence.

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A nation that taxes AI profits only to cut one-off household cheques treats a structural dawn like a sunset industry.
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Still, it’s difficult to imagine a future in which our dysfunctional Congress passes a law to take a stake in AI companies, and then the government seamlessly redistributes the earnings to the rest of us. And regardless, such arrangements are unlikel...
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Samuel Hammond
Director of AI Policy and Chief Economist at the Foundation for American Innovation

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The federal government is really the only entity powerful enough to be a real check on these companies. If they become joined at the hip, that check goes away. It can easily become a form of regulatory capture.
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