# kaal:claim:6421319-036

**Claim.** Predistribution, which operates upstream by structuring markets and institutions so that AI gains are broadly shared before concentration occurs, must be implemented before AI capital concentration becomes self reinforcing through purchased political power.

**Type.** design  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- mechanisms offered for consideration include capital taxation, open source AI mandates, decentralized compute networks, and DAO based community ownership

**Source quote.**

> Predistribution operates upstream, structuring markets and institutions so that the gains from AI are broadly shared before concentration occurs.

**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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**Topics.** dao, governance-design, ai-and-agents, open-source-and-code

**Keywords.** predistribution, policy-design, capital-concentration, dao-governance, open-source-ai

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