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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.
- S01Shifting Work Patterns with Generative AI
randomized field experiment / dated 2025 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S02AI Adoption and Inequality
IMF working paper / published 2025-04-04 / retrieved 2026-07-09