This was a fantastic and thought-provoking piece — thank you for taking the time to go beyond the usual surface-level takes on post-labor economics.
Reading your essay made me reflect on a complementary line of thinking I’ve been exploring. Like you, I start from the premise that general-purpose AI + robotics will outperform humans in both cognitive and physical tasks, making human labor mostly obsolete. But rather than framing the future in binary terms — owners vs. everyone else — I’ve been thinking of a possible trajectory in which a free-market capitalist economy could still function under these new constraints, just in a radically transformed shape.
This was a fantastic and thought-provoking piece — thank you for taking the time to go beyond the usual surface-level takes on post-labor economics.
Reading your essay made me reflect on a complementary line of thinking I’ve been exploring. Like you, I start from the premise that general-purpose AI + robotics will outperform humans in both cognitive and physical tasks, making human labor mostly obsolete. But rather than framing the future in binary terms — owners vs. everyone else — I’ve been thinking of a possible trajectory in which a free-market capitalist economy could still function under these new constraints, just in a radically transformed shape.
Let me explain my hypothesis in full.
1. Ownership... (read 1170 more words →)