The social contract between business, labor, and government is breaking down — and AI is about to accelerate the rupture.

Productivity has been decoupling from wages for decades. Now, with machines approaching "better, faster, cheaper, safer" across virtually every economically valuable task, we're not looking at another industrial shift. We're looking at the end of obligatory human labor as an economic input.

The question isn't whether this happens. It's whether we have a framework ready when it does.

That's what Post-Labor Economics is — a six-part framework covering the rise of automation, the structural decline of labor, the great decoupling, diagnosis, prescription, and the post-labor future. PLE isn't utopian hand-waving. It's policy-grounded, historically informed, and designed to address both prosperity and power.

I've spent years developing this framework in public — on YouTube, on my Substack, and in conversation with economists, technologists, and policymakers. Now it's a book.

The Kickstarter for Labor/Zero is live. Backers get the book plus access to a comprehensive PLE course that goes deeper than the text — additional materials, frameworks, and applied thinking for navigating what comes next.

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What's the policy question you think we're least prepared for as labor automation scales?

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