Topics · Concept
Future of work
What AI does to jobs and livelihoods: the interval before any post-scarcity economy, basic income against basic access, and who gets through the middle.
- Within
- Economics, Social reform
- Pages
- 3
On the map 3 pages and the topics around it
2026
-
noteCitizen entrepreneurs
My friend's answer to the transition: with AI, ordinary people can find a business opportunity, build the business, and run it. He built an idea factory.
-
noteThe move to the city
Urbanisation was miserable for the people who lived through it and better for everyone who came after. The argument about AI and work has the same shape.
-
noteThe tumult in between
If AI ends in post-scarcity, the dangerous part is the interval: jobs going before goods become nearly free, with no agreed idea of where the ship steers.