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...
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 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...
