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