What if AI-driven labor surplus forces a serious US UBI and tax debate?
Sustained automation-driven displacement and a rising capital share push universal-basic-income and capital-tax proposals into mainstream policy; the redistribution debate raises uncertainty over future corporate-profit taxation.
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The butterfly cascade
How this trigger trickles across markets, left → right — the root shock, its first‑order moves, then the ripple effects. Drag any node; tap a market for its real price history.
Resolution timeline — how this probability is moving
Our model's odds (electric blue) over time vs the market's (Polymarket, amber), from the past toward the 3–10 years horizon. Each dot is a real macro event that nudged the probability — green pushed it up, red pushed it down. Tap a dot for the source. Loading the probability audit trail…
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. Sustained automation-driven displacement and a rising capital share push universal-basic-income and capital-tax proposals into mainstream policy; the redistribution debate raises uncertainty over future corporate-profit taxation. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Job displacement ▲ · Labor surplus ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.