Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy

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  Dario Amodei

  CEO at Anthropic

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  If AI creates huge total wealth, a lot of that will, by default, go to the AI companies and less to ordinary people. So, you know, it's definitely not in my economic interest to say that, but I think this is something we should consider and I think i... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Bernie Sanders

  U.S. Senator from Vermont

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  Robots don't need a wage, health care, time off, sick leave, Social Security, Medicare or unemployment benefits. The same handful of oligarchs who have rigged our economy for decades are now moving as fast as they can to replace human workers with wh... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Vinod Khosla

  Venture capitalist; Khosla Ventures founder

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  AI will transform economies and need a rethink of capitalism & equity. Labor portion of economy (vs capital) will decline sharply. Should we eliminate preferential treatment of capital gains tax and equalize to ordinary income? [...] Could easily eli... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Sam Altman

  CEO at OpenAI

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  That's, like, a real change to how capitalism has worked. [Capitalism has] depended on at least something of a power balance between labor and capital. But if it's hard in many of our current jobs to outwork a GPU, then that changes. If there was an ... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Andrew Yang

  2020 US Presidential Candidate

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  We're going to be in a position where we want to shore up labor in every quarter, in every organization and environment. We should actually try to stop taxing labor, and instead start taxing AI. I just came from an AI conference out west, and holy co... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Economist, AI & productivity scholar

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  We've really been very unbalanced in how we tax labor and capital. Let's level the playing field and not favor entrepreneurs putting people out of work by replacing them with capital. Unverified source (2022)

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  Thomas Piketty

  French economist and professor

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  When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based. ... more Unverified source (2013)

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  Daron Acemoglu

  Nobel laureate economist; MIT Institute Professor; author of Power and Progress

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  The US tax system favors introducing machinery instead of people. If you hire people, you pay 30 percent tax. If you hire machinery, you pay zero tax. These are the kinds of things that we can easily change in order to alter the direction of research... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Anton Korinek

  Economist at University of Virginia and Brookings Institution; researcher on AI economics and public finance

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  As labor income taxation becomes less viable, the primary lesson is that consumption taxation must carry more fiscal weight. This shift aligns naturally with pro-innovation policies, as consumption taxes avoid penalizing the capital investments essen... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Lawrence Summers

  Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; President Emeritus of Harvard University; economist

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  votes Against and says:

  Why pick on robots? [...] I don't think simply trying to resist or stop technology is a viable strategy. I don't think it would be a viable strategy if it was adoptable on a global basis, but it's even less viable for a single country in internationa... more Unverified source (2017)

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