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SUMMARYRapid AI progress could increase demand for human labor rather than eliminate it, because physical execution, infrastructure, and regulation would lag behind digital cognition. It predicts a period in which workers become scarce implementation capacity, driving unemployment toward zero and wages higher as AI generates more plans, companies, and projects than the physical world can support.
https://ramp.com/data/ai-jobs-impact
original post and title by https://x.com/Dan_Jeffries1
To all the downvoters and naysayers, this is what i would say: :
A lot of people assume the post-labour future arrives by humans being priced out of work and left unemployed, poor, and vulnerable.
I think the opposite is more economically plausible.
As AI cognitive capability increases exponentially, it will generate an explosion of plans, projects, companies, services, infrastructure demands, and physical-world tasks. But the bottleneck will not be cognition. The bottleneck will be execution.
In other words: software accelerates MUCH faster than hardware. This is just the reality of physics and the ability for AI to evolve and iterate in the digital space faster than in physical space.
AI can think, design, coordinate, and optimise far faster than the physical world can adapt. Robots, factories, logistics systems, construction capacity, energy infrastructure, and regulatory processes will lag behind the cognitive surplus. During that gap, human labour becomes scarce implementation capacity.
So rather than mass unemployment, the transition could create a seller’s market for human labour: unemployment falls toward zero, wages rise sharply, and more people retire earlier because their labour becomes temporarily absurdly valuable.
The post-labour future may not begin with workers being discarded. It may begin with workers being paid so much that they voluntarily leave.
The last human worker might not be a desperate gig worker priced out by machines. He might be a 35-year-old janitor retiring as a millionaire after doing the final physical task AI still needed a human for.
A simple way to visualise it: imagine 10 billion Einstein-level minds suddenly appearing on Earth, all able to generate ideas, plans, companies, inventions, and demand — but none able to move a box, wire a building, repair a pipe, build a server farm, or install a robot.
Would that suppress the value of human labour?
Or would it make physically capable humans vastly more valuable until automation finally catches up?