economics
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The Productivity Clock In 1987, economist Robert Solow made an observation that became one of the most quoted lines in technology economics: “You can see the computer age everywhere except in the productivity statistics.” It took roughly a decade for that to change. Computers had arrived. Organizations were using them. Productivity, at the macro level,…
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Part 2 of 2: The Labor Clock This is Part 2 of a two-part piece on the labor restructuring underway in the AI economy. Part 1 covered the bifurcation already visible in current data and the historical pattern of who captures productivity surpluses. This piece goes underneath that, to a structural problem that moves on…
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Part 1 of 2: The Labor Clock This is a two-part piece. The labor restructuring is the most layered of the four clocks in the AI economic reconfiguration, so I’m breaking this up into two parts. Part 1 covers what the data already shows: who is capturing the productivity surplus, and why the bifurcation happening…
