8.Reconstructing Labor in the Age of Zero Marginal Production
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Chapter 8 — Governing the Age of Unemployed Growth
The final chapter explores possible futures.
The key question:
How do societies remain stable when productivity no longer requires mass employment?
Core thesis: AI does not primarily destroy jobs. It destroys the economic necessity of labor. The crisis is not unemployment, but the persistence of degraded work despite abundance.
Relevant policy question
- how to reassign human labor toward socially necessary, non-automatable functions—primarily care, education, and institutional maintenance.
Column Set
1. The Myth of AI-Induced Unemployment
→ Jobs are not disappearing; they are becoming worse
2. Why Productivity Growth No Longer Benefits Workers
→ Decoupling of wages and output
3. The Collapse of Labor Institutions Before AI
→ Historical diagnosis
4. Care Work as the Last Human Industry
→ Teaching, nursing, therapy as core sectors
5. From Engineers to Teachers: The New Career Pipeline
→ Labor reallocation concept
6. AI as a Management Tool vs AI as a Worker Tool
→ Power asymmetry in deployment
7. Why Silicon Valley Is Also Losing Labor Autonomy
→ Extend beyond blue-collar narrative
8. Tripartite Governance: The Missing Layer in AI Policy
→ Institutional design piece
(Optional strong additions:)
9. The Economics of Dignity
→ Why care work must be repriced
10. From Labor Markets to Labor Systems
→ Your signature theoretical column
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The Economy Editorial Board oversees the analytical direction, research standards, and thematic focus of The Economy. The Board is responsible for maintaining methodological rigor, editorial independence, and clarity in the publication’s coverage of global economic, financial, and technological developments.
Working across research, policy, and data-driven analysis, the Editorial Board ensures that published pieces reflect a consistent institutional perspective grounded in quantitative reasoning and long-term structural assessment.
Working across research, policy, and data-driven analysis, the Editorial Board ensures that published pieces reflect a consistent institutional perspective grounded in quantitative reasoning and long-term structural assessment.
