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This novel plays with the idea of AI regulating transactions in a way that maintains low income inequality while also automatically funding entitlements and public spaces. I thought it was an interesting take. Ironically, though, it's only available on Amazon... You can get the main idea from the Economics portion of the prologue, which is part of the free preview. No need to read the whole book. Basically AI, as a neutral 3rd party, can take advantage of the economic surplus in transactions to pick individualized prices that keep people's income about the same while also making sure people feel good about the price of each good or service they buy. It skims part of that surplus during each transaction to fund public goods. The society operates somewhere between democratic socialism on AI "speed" and true socialism, but it's completely reliant on AI for the economic system which creates its own problems. First Tree: Hunter, R.: 9798255734733: Amazon.com: Books