# kaal:claim:6421319-035

**Claim.** 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.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- applies to redistributive mechanisms such as universal basic income that operate after wealth concentrates

**Source quote.**

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

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The Collapse of Scarcity Economics* (2026), VIII.D. Capital Concentration and the Predistributive Imperative, page 32

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319

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**Failure mode.** Redistribution Window Closure  (family: inequality-and-access-divide)

**Topics.** economics

**Keywords.** redistribution, taxation, capital-concentration, political-economy, ubi

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