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Redistribution after the fact is likely to fail, because by the time it becomes politically feasible those controlling the AI economy may be powerful enough to evade meaningful taxation, a pattern history has repeated from the Medici to the robber barons to contemporary tech monopolists.

By the time redistribution becomes politically feasible, those controlling the AI economy may be powerful enough to evade meaningful taxation.

Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026), VIII.D. Capital Concentration and the Predistributive Imperative, p. 32
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• applies to redistributive mechanisms such as universal basic income that operate after wealth concentrates

failuresupport: arguedfailure: Redistribution Window Closurefamily: inequality-and-access-divideeconomics

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