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Labor Zero: Online Companion
Free companion material for Labor Zero: AI, Automation, and the Last Employed Generation, by David Shapiro.
Appendix and Bibliography
- Appendix: Measuring Ownership Income (PDF, 15 pages). The full appendix, with its formulas and tables.
- Bibliography (PDF, 82 pages). The book’s complete bibliography.
The four graphics from the front of the book
Two facing pairs: the two systems, then the two pyramids. “One provides the substance … and the other provides the teeth.” (Chapter 6)
Today: the wage-based system
Before the Great Decoupling. Households earn by working.
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Post-Labor: the capital-based system
After the Great Decoupling. Households earn by owning.
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The Pyramid of Prosperity
The five tiers of post-labor household income.
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The Pyramid of Power
The five layers of a new social contract.
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The PDFs have their fonts built in, so they are the ones to print and share. The SVG sources are for editing and need the Perpetua and Gill Sans MT fonts installed.
Supplementary papers
- Derived and Essential Demand (PDF, 161 pages). Human work, income distribution, and the Fourth Sector: what human work remains when machines can supply the functional result, and whether its earnings can support broad livelihoods.
- Post-Labor Household Income Interventions (PDF, 63 pages). A catalogue of 213 programs implemented or tested worldwide, from citizen dividends and asset accounts to worker ownership, guaranteed income, conditional and emergency cash, and public jobs.
- Post-Labor Economics Metrics Reference (PDF, 764 pages). A consolidated glossary of labor, capital, household and automation evidence, in 140 standalone metric chapters.
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The QR code in the book
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