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Astra and the Beginning of the End of Necessary Labor
What happens to work, ownership and the shape of civilization as AI begins to make human labor economically unnecessary, and why the passage there may be harder than the destination. Written in the weeks after OpenAI's Astra release.
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- Recorded History May Be the Age of Ownership
From hunter-gatherer access to accumulable surplus—and perhaps beyond it
- The Child Born Today May Never Need a Job
Astra, Karl Marx, and the possibility that AI ends the economics of scarcity
- The Dangerous Passage to Abundance
The child born today may inherit a post-work world—but first comes the struggle over who controls the transition