by Tyler M | Mar 10, 2026 | Post Labor Economics, AI
Research compiled from NBER, McKinsey, EY, KPMG, BCG, OpenAI, CRA, Bloomberg, BLS, Lawfare, and Carnegie Endowment primary sources How the Capability Gap Makes the Ratchet Invisible On February 22, 2026, a fictional recession crashed real markets. Citrini...
by Tyler M | Mar 6, 2026 | Post Labor Economics, AI
Bottom Line AI does not need to eliminate jobs to break the labor market. It needs to compress the wage premium for expertise — the gap between what a second-year worker earns and what a fifteenth-year veteran earns — enough that prospective entrants rationally decide...
by Tyler M | Mar 3, 2026 | Post Labor Economics, AI
by Tyler M | Feb 27, 2026 | Post Labor Economics, AI Bottom Line When both sides of an adversarial proceeding adopt AI, costs do not fall to a new, lower equilibrium. They escalate to a new, higher plateau. Legal services offer the cleanest empirical demonstration of...
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...
