Contrarian take: AI-driven productivity gains will mean more workers, not fewer
sebpaquet · x · 2026-10-09
RadnorCapital pushes back on the "AI kills jobs" narrative: AI will drive the largest per-worker productivity increase ever, and higher marginal productivity means companies will want to hire more people at higher wages to capture new profit pools.
Key arguments:
- The claim that AI will leave fewer jobs implicitly assumes we're at the end of time with no problems left; but companies are problem-solving machines and new problems keep emerging.
- As long as judgment, trust, empathy, creativity, and accountability matter, much of the new work will need humans.
- The economic pie isn't fixed—every era of progress created more jobs—and the author expects an explosion in business formation.
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