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THE LEDGER

SECTION 10

ISSUE 001

PROJECTIONprovocation1-3yconfidence / medium

Share the Productivity Dividend

Provocation: measurable productivity gains should trigger negotiated sharing—wages, shorter hours, training funds, or employee equity. If firms keep the upside while workers absorb monitoring, deskilling, and transition risk, even useful technology arrives as an extraction machine. Distribution is not an afterthought to adoption; it is the condition for durable adoption.

Why this idea is here

What the evidence establishes.

Field experiments document productivity and workflow changes; IMF research shows distribution depends on complementarity, adoption patterns, and capital ownership.

Source ledger

Read the sources.

  1. S01
    Shifting Work Patterns with Generative AI

    randomized field experiment / dated 2025 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  2. S02
    AI Adoption and Inequality

    IMF working paper / published 2025-04-04 / retrieved 2026-07-09

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