by Tyler M | Jan 23, 2026 | Post Labor Economics
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, and concentrated among experienced workers. Reinstatement remains materially...
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
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 risks of an AI-driven economy: declining...
by Tyler M | Jan 2, 2026 | Post Labor Economics
From Static Distribution to Homeostatic Social Control By Tyler Maddox Executive Abstract Current state distribution models—welfare, UBI, energy subsidies—operate as open-loop systems: policy is set, resources are distributed, and outcomes are measured months or years...
by Tyler M | Dec 19, 2025 | AI, Post Labor Economics
Why the Post-Labor Economy Will Collapse from Atrophy, Not ScarcityThe Post-Labor Economy has become the feel-good myth of the automation age—a story of abundance without consequence. The narrative is seductive in its simplicity: Artificial Intelligence will assume...
by Tyler M | Dec 12, 2025 | Post Labor Economics
How We Built an Economy That No Longer Needs Us to Function, But Needs Us to Fail. By Tyler Maddox The narrative of the automation age was sold to us as a story of liberation. We were told that as Artificial Intelligence replaced labor, it would detach human survival...
