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AI driven abundance generates enormous aggregate surplus, but the surplus accrues disproportionately to owners of AI capital, including compute infrastructure, proprietary models, training data, and the organizational capacity to deploy them.

The dilemma is structural: AI-driven abundance generates enormous aggregate surplus, but the surplus accrues disproportionately to owners of AI capital, including compute infrastructure, proprietary models, training data, and the organizational capacity to deploy them.

Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026), VIII.D. Capital Concentration and the Predistributive Imperative, p. 32
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Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319

• supported by IMF findings that higher capital returns may increase wealth inequality

empiricalsupport: evidencedfailure: Surplus Capture by AI Capitalfamily: inequality-and-access-divideai-and-agents

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