Post-Labor AI Boom or the Largest Wealth Transfer from Payroll to Compute?
VraserX · x · 2026-08-03
The author poses a thought-provoking question: is the so-called "post-labor" era a genuine AI-driven boom, or merely the largest wealth transfer in history—shifting massive capital from employee payrolls directly into compute spending?
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