Life after work | Mechanize Inc.
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Life after work | Mechanize, Inc. Life after work Matthew Barnett, Tamay Besiroglu, Ege Erdil October 21, 2025 It's natural to feel anxious as we approach the inevitable automation of all human labor. Economic theory suggests that full automation will cause wages to collapse, potentially below subsistence level: the bare minimum needed to sustain human life. Yet the full automation of the economy will probably also make most people vastly better off. Plummeting wages will coincide with sharply rising standards of living, rapid medical progress , and an explosion in the variety of goods and ser
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