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  "title": "Bernie Sanders wants to give every American $1000 a year from AI profits and the reasoning actually makes sense",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1u9ifn2/bernie_sanders_wants_to_give_every_american_1000/",
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  "upload_date": "20260618",
  "published_at": "2026-06-18T21:05:42+00:00",
  "transcript": "Saw this on Gizmodo today and it's been stuck in my head\n\nThe argument is simple. AI learned from everyone's writing, art, code, conversations and companies are now worth trillions because of that. so why is none of it coming back to the people whose work built it\n\nThe bill would create a $7 trillion fund, give the public a 50% stake in the biggest AI labs, $1000 a year per person to start, goes up as AI makes more\n\nEvery time i use chatgpt i think about all the writers and coders and artists whose work it learned from who got nothing. This is at least someone trying to address that\n\nIs this actually doable or just a good idea that goes nowhere\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[58 upvotes] What profits?\n\n[6 upvotes] Why don’t you ask chat gpt what the effect the US government borrowing $1000 per person and mailing the loan proceeds to people would have on inflation.\n\n[7 upvotes] A reasonable high dividend corporation is **4%** \\- so all you need now is **35 THOUSAND** successful AI corporations like Anthropic.   \nAll with 50% public ownership and you'll end up with 7 trillion annual dividends for the public.\n\nAnd that's quite nicely summing up all ideas I've heard from Sanders in the past decade.\n\n\n\n[6 upvotes] The latest battleground in Class Warfare: anti-AI",
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    "author": "Neil_at_HackerEarth",
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