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We will need a new tax code for the wealth AI creates

Mass underemployment isn't a question of if—it's when. And your tax code isn't ready.

Reporting by Financial Times Technology 1 min brief
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Why it matters

As AI-driven automation scales toward workforce displacement, policymakers face an urgent question: can existing tax frameworks handle the wealth concentration and revenue loss that mass underemployment will trigger? This is no longer academic—it's an operational risk for every economy.

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5 to know

  1. Assumes mass underemployment as inevitable outcome of AI scaling

  2. Focuses on policy and tax code readiness gap

  3. Published in Financial Times (credible policy platform)

  4. Frames AI impact as workforce displacement requiring systemic policy response

  5. Implies urgency: policy lag vs. AI deployment speed mismatch

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Publisher excerpt: The question isn’t whether mass underemployment arrives but whether we have a policy framework ready when it does
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