OpenAI's Economic Blueprint: Robot Taxes, a Public Wealth Fund, and the Four-Day Workweek — From the Company Burning $14 Billion a Year

OpenAI published a 13-page policy document calling for taxes on automated labor, a nationally managed public wealth fund seeded by AI companies, automatic safety nets triggered by displacement data, containment playbooks for rogue AI, and government-incentivized 32-hour workweeks. The timing — weeks after a $122 billion funding round and months before a planned $1 trillion IPO — raises questions about whether this is genuine policy or pre-IPO positioning.