Welcome to Post-Work Economics, where Singularity Streets explores what happens when productivity keeps rising but traditional jobs stop being the only gateway to income, dignity, and belonging. Automation isn’t just about robots on factory floors—it’s software agents, self-optimizing supply chains, AI copilots, and platforms that turn entire industries into services. This hub gathers articles on the emerging economy beyond the paycheck: universal basic income and negative income taxes, shorter workweeks, ownership models, stakeholder capitalism, digital public goods, and the new bargaining power of data, attention, and compute. We’ll follow the hard questions—how value is measured when output is abundant, how incentives change when labor is optional, and what happens to education, housing, healthcare, and community when “employment” isn’t the central organizing principle. Expect grounded explanations of macroeconomics, policy experiments, and real-world constraints like inflation, taxation, and political feasibility—alongside the cultural side of the shift: purpose, status, time, and creativity. If the future is less about earning to survive and more about organizing abundance fairly, this is your starting point.
Post-Work Economics
