As evidenced in the years long ongoing discussion of: “is AI going to bring good changes, or not so good?“…
….and as noted in previous post by Kris… we want to know about AI driven changes coming in jobs, employment, and careers. Many different takes are out there.
One take we don’t hear that much about is the difficulty of changing careers, and why that matters. Changing jobs is challenging but is not the same level of challenge as changing careers mid stream, and careers enable many aspects of a stable society.
David Shapiro has worked on documenting a coherent range of possible outcomes, and their associated contingencies.
Shapiro just shared one of his work-in-progress workshops on Post Labor Economics, located at Github, where he aggregates his various research initiatives and analysis.
And he put together a one sheet outline for his current take as of today…. on what he calls Post Labor Economics; which he also notes is more or less always “in progress” because of rapid changes in the AI world. And it changes as one adds new ideas through iterations. He also uses the phrase “The Great Decoupling” to describe these ideas.
Great Decoupling Master Outline