# Capital concentration

`kaal:entity:capital-concentration`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `capital-concentration`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 1 works, 2026 to 2026.

**2026**

- [6421319-034](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-034) [empirical/evidenced] *(failure mode)* -- 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). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319
- [6421319-035](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-035) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- 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). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319
- [6421319-036](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-036) [design/argued] -- 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.
  > Predistribution operates upstream, structuring markets and institutions so that the gains from AI are broadly shared before concentration occurs.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319

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