by Tyler M | Feb 27, 2026 | Post Labor Economics, AI
Executive Summary The prevailing debate frames AI infrastructure spending as either visionary investment or speculative bubble. Both framings miss the structural reality. What we are witnessing is a ratchet — a mechanism that only tightens and cannot reverse. On the...
by Tyler M | Feb 23, 2026 | AI, Post Labor Economics
by Tyler Maddox | February 2026 | Post Labor Economics When the Agent Fights Back On February 11, 2026, a volunteer software maintainer named Scott Shambaugh closed a pull request. He was enforcing an existing community policy — one requiring a human in the loop for...
by Tyler M | Feb 22, 2026 | Post Labor Economics, AI
The Founding Pattern: Edison’s Trust and the Hollywood Bypass In December 1908, Thomas Edison’s Motion Picture Patents Company consolidated monopoly control over American filmmaking through a simple, elegant mechanism: patent licensing over cameras, projectors, and an...
by Tyler M | Feb 20, 2026 | Post Labor Economics, AI
When Production Stops Needing Consumers An Analytical Essay on the Demand-Side Consequences of Labor Share Compression and AI-Driven Workforce Restructuring tylermaddox.info February 2026 Research compiled from Federal Reserve, BLS, BEA, Census Bureau, academic...
by Tyler M | Feb 13, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Post-Labor Thesis Is Wrong: A Steel manned Counter-Model A Serious Counter-Model: Why the Post-Labor Thesis Could Be Wrong If the post-labor thesis fails, it will not fail because AI stalls, nor because capitalism suddenly becomes benevolent. It will fail in a...
