The labor advocate quoted in The New Republic did not say AI wealth should be redistributed through taxation, regulation, or collective bargaining. The statement was that AI 'cannot simply benefit the richest people in the world' — a moral assertion dressed as a political position. The careful qualifier that AI is a 'complicated enemy' signals that the speaker is not a technophobe. It also signals that no concrete mechanism is on the table. Moral assertions without enforcement mechanisms are political positioning, not policy demands — and the labs…