Wealth and power
Producing more, receiving more, and having more say are separate outcomes. This path follows the connections between them.
Labor displacement raises the question of how income changes when machines perform more work. AI ownership and Social wealth funds concern claims on productive assets. Universal Basic Income and Redistribution concern how purchasing power reaches people.
Political bargaining power and Institutional resilience ask what makes those arrangements durable. Permanent underclass names one possible failure mode. Citizenship and social membership asks who is included; Scarcity after automation asks what money can actually buy. Who should control aligned AI asks who holds power if AI development goes technically well.
Arguments to follow
Compare the distribution proposal in Moore’s Law for Everything with the political concern in UBI and loss of political leverage. They address related problems from different directions.