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 14, 2026 | Post Labor Economics
A Research Framework for the Skill Nobody Can Name, the Market Nobody Can Price, and the Power Nobody Can See Consider the concept of orchestration class. By Tyler Maddox | February 14, 2026 The narrative of the AI age has a gap in it. Not a small one. A structural...
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...
