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Automation and repression — why the two go hand in hand
Revolts, triggered by inequality

* "It's taxes or pitchforks!"
"This is the real underlying threat posed by automation: tremendous social upheaval, public unrest, and political collapse stemming from widespread unemployment and grotesque inequality."

"More automation will require more redistribution to cushion the disruptive effects of automation, so as a country automates more, the tax burden will keep increasing on "capitalists"

Acemoglu, Shadmehr and Gitmez "have modelled how workers would try to coordinate in an uprising, and how a capitalist state would try to prevent an uprising occurring, in an environment in which automation and inequality are increasing."

"They say the novel finding of their paper is that automation and repression complement and reinforce each other...The economy will ultimately converge to repression and the 'pitchforks' will be met with 'guns' from the capitalist state". >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-26/automation-and-repression-the-two-go-hand-in-hand-daron-acemoglu/107063582

* "We characterize the trade-off between the regulation of automation, redistribution and repression.Our main result is a complementarity between automation and repression. We show that, starting in a democracy, capital accumulation and thus greater automation encourages the capitalists to support a coup against democracy and set up a repressive system." >>
https://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/35336.html

* Daron Acemoglu & A. Arda Gitmez & Mehdi Shadmehr, 2026. "Automation and Repression," NBER Working Papers 35336, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. >>
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35336/w35336.pdf
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