Economist debate: AI-era labor shifts to human-valuable work, total labor spend won't fall
herbiebradley · x · 2026-10-18
herbiebradley argues that AI-driven automation won't shrink total labor spend: labor will shift to areas where humans are inherently valuable (like sales), and that labor becomes dramatically more valuable. The interlocutor counters that labor should then reprice. A brief but substantive exchange on AGI's economic impact on employment.
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