By late 2030s, AI plus humanoid robots could upend an economy built on wages
VraserX · x · 2026-08-20
The author predicts that by the late 2030s, AI combined with humanoid robots could make today's labor market look prehistoric: factories, warehouses, construction sites, offices, delivery networks, and parts of healthcare could run with a fraction of the human labor.
The real question isn't "which jobs will AI replace" but rather: what happens to a wage-based economy when human labor is no longer scarce? They expect the transition to be chaotic, but the end state could be abundance without everyone selling 40 hours of their week to survive.
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