by Tyler M | Feb 6, 2026 | Post Labor Economics, AI
Executive Summary The prevailing narrative attributes technology-sector layoffs to AI’s direct automation of labor. This framing is incomplete and, in many cases, deliberately misleading. A comprehensive analysis of capital allocation patterns, depreciation...
by Tyler M | Jan 30, 2026 | Post Labor Economics
Full Automation Fail Conditions The post-labor thesis can fail in only two fundamental ways. First, artificial intelligence could encounter durable technical ceilings that permanently preserve large domains of human labor. Second, even if AI capability continues...
by Tyler M | Jan 23, 2026 | Post Labor Economics
The Pattern for Entry Level Workers “No Jobs”, “No Work” Bottom line: The evidence from 2023–2025 does not falsify the post-labor thesis—but it narrows it. AI complementarity exists, but it is unevenly distributed, weakly transmitted to wages,...
by Tyler M | Jan 16, 2026 | Post Labor Economics
Falsification Conditions for the Post-Labor Thesis Wage Share Reversal, Policy Capacity, and What Would Prove Me Wrong If the post-labor thesis is correct, labor’s declining share of national income is not a temporary artifact of cycles, measurement error, or policy...
by Tyler M | Jan 9, 2026 | Post Labor Economics
Does the Post Labor Narrative Still Hold? If the post-labor thesis is wrong, it will not fail quietly. It will fail by leaving a generation over-prepared for jobs that no longer exist—and under-prepared for the ones that do. Last year, I set out to map the structural...
