A history of work
From Aristotle’s self-weaving shuttles to the Luddites, Keynes’s 15-hour week and the Triple Revolution memo.
Post-Labor Wiki
What happens to income, power and meaning when machines can do most paid work? History, evidence, frameworks and the skeptics, with a source behind every claim.
Hero: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Land of Cockaigne (1567), public domain. People have pictured a world without toil for at least 450 years.
Start here
Section titled “Start here”Post-labor in five minutesThe idea, the evidence, the proposals and the doubts on one page.
How we sourceEvidence tiers, claim labels and how to report a mistake.
BibliographyEvery source the wiki cites, filterable by topic, with DOIs.
Coming next
Section titled “Coming next”The wiki ships in small releases. These sections are being written now:
The evidence
Labour’s share of income, productivity vs pay, participation and what robots and LLMs have done to jobs, from live data.
Frameworks
Post-Labor Economics, basic income, inclusive ownership, universal basic services, post-work theory and technofeudalism.
Real-world experiments
Alaska, Norway, Mincome, Finland, Stockton, OpenResearch and Kenya: what cash and ownership actually did.
Power and democracy
What happens to bargaining power and the social contract when labour is no longer a lever.
The skeptics' corner
The strongest case that this time is not different, steelmanned.