ChatGPT, asked to assess whether wealth redistribution could eliminate class differences, offered a nuanced answer. It stated that aggressive redistribution, including progressive taxation, universal basic income, robust public housing, and strong social safety nets, can eliminate absolute poverty and dramatically shrink the gap between the richest and poorest. Nordic social democracies were cited as the clearest real-world example, where class distance feels considerably smaller due to redistribution policy. However, ChatGPT noted that even if all bank accounts were perfectly equalized, structural and human factors would recreate class distinctions almost immediately, as differing risk tolerances, values, and life stages lead to unequal financial outcomes. The AI also cited sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, who identified multiple types of capital; while economic capital can be redistributed, social capital and cultural capital resist redistribution almost entirely, giving those born with such advantages a persistent class edge. Finally, ChatGPT raised the status problem, arguing that humans are status-seeking by nature, so if money is removed as the primary measure of class, societies pivot to other metrics like political or bureaucratic power and intellectual or technical meritocracy, meaning class does not disappear.