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3Designing social systems with AI instead of choosing left or right: AI-written tax and redistribution rules, Community Notes, and who sets the objectiveAI can now draft tax schedules, redistribution rules and compromise statements, and some of them win votes against the familiar ideological designs. Each one still needs someone to decide what counts as better, and outside the lab pricing software, engagement-driven feeds and pollsters' synthetic respondents are already making that decision.Article18 Oct68 quotes · 4 sources · 15 minTopping up low wages in Canada: the Canada Workers Benefit, employer capture, and the workers who never fileCanada already runs the alternative to a basic income — a refundable credit that tops up low earnings automatically. Two things decide whether it works: employers absorb part of any wage subsidy where no floor exists, and about 9% of eligible earners never file a return.Article10 Oct46 quotes · 1 source · 9 minJob guarantees in Austria, France and India: employment effects, cost per job, and the designs that trap peopleA job for anyone who wants one sounds utopian. It has been tried — in an Austrian town, in 83 French territories and across rural India. It works, it costs money, and the design decides whether it is a springboard or a trap.Article10 Oct49 quotes · 1 source · 8 min