Reality over ideology
If evidence contradicts a preferred theory, the theory changes.
Economic systems beyond employment
What happens when work is no longer necessary?
After Labour is an independent research project exploring how societies create prosperity when human labour is no longer the primary source of economic value or household income.
Model 001
The Labour Machine
A simplified model for exploring what happens when productivity rises while fewer people are required to work. Change the assumptions. Watch the economy move.
Live scenario
What does this economy produce?
Total output
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Employment-supported income
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Aggregate labour-linked income
Machine / capital income
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Income accruing to capital before redistribution
Universal dividend
$0
Estimated annual dividend per adult
Median real purchasing power
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Distribution gap
0
Higher means output and household prosperity diverge
System signal
Production is rising faster than household prosperity.
Working principles
No ideology. No prophecy. Test the system.
Build mechanisms
Research should produce systems that can be modelled, compared and challenged.
Expose assumptions
Every model should make its assumptions visible so readers can change them themselves.
Research agenda
The questions beneath the future of work.
Would Anyone Still Work?
Modelling the labour-market effects of a high guaranteed income in the United States.
Who Owns the Machines?
Comparing private ownership, social wealth funds, universal capital and public infrastructure models.
The Human Dividend
What happens when citizens hold a direct economic claim on machine-generated output?
About
After Labour studies prosperity after wage dependence.
We examine automation, ownership, distribution, scarcity, public finance and the institutions that may be required if employment becomes less central to economic life.