Ricardo, KI und Kapital im 22. Jahrhundert: Die Verschiebung in der Einkommensverteilung

Trammell and Patel argue that advanced AI may turn capital into a near-perfect substitute for labour, driving the capital share towards unity. This article accepts the prospective decline of labour but challenges the lasting dominance of reproducible capital. A parsimonious four-factor model groups labour and produced capital into a reproducible sector, and qualified locations plus natural energy flows into a non-reproducible sector. If the former grows faster, land and resource rents gain. Whether land or energy dominates depends on which constraint expands more slowly. The policy implication is a tax shift from labour and productive investment towards economic rents.