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Moore's Law for Everything (2021)
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For engineers building software and systems, this frames AI as a force that will compress entire supply chains—replacing both cognitive and physical labor recursively as machines build machines. The policy proposal to tax capital and land rather than labor signals a potential shift in how the economic surplus from automation gets captured and redistributed.
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Altman predicts AI will reduce labor costs toward zero across supply chains, from medical diagnosis to construction, as recursive automation drives down the cost of goods and services.
He proposes taxing companies and land to redistribute the wealth AI generates, arguing that existing policy frameworks are inadequate for the scale of change coming.
The essay contrasts decades of falling costs in technology goods with rising costs in housing, healthcare, and education, arguing AI must drive down those categories as well for broad prosperity.
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