Welfare playbook for AI unemployment

AI‑driven job displacement should be treated as a standard distributional problem: apply established social‑democratic tools (progressive taxation, targeted corporate levies, universal benefits, social ownership) rather than inventing bespoke techno‑policies. The political obstacle, not the policy gap, is the core barrier — productive technologies reduce the fiscal and administrative cost of generous social programs. — Shifting the debate from panicked novelty to implementing tried‑and‑true welfare mechanisms reframes who has to change (politicians and coalitions) and how public resources should be mobilized for an AI era.