post-labor-economics

post-labor-economics is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wentorai/research-plugins. It costs 20 tokens per session (2,591 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research guide to post-labor economics: the study of what happens to jobs, income, and economic growth if automation and AI perform many human tasks. It covers evidence, theories, and policy ideas such as universal basic income.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review research, compare explanations for job displacement, and examine policies for distributing wealth in highly automated economies.
Why use it?
It gives newcomers a structured way to study automation's effects instead of treating the topic as only a future scenario or opinion debate.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to review research, compare explanations for job displacement, and examine policies for distributing wealth in highly automated economies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wentorai/research-plugins/post-labor-economics
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill post-labor-economics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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When invoked 2,591 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01295
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00518
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00259

Measured 7d ago against content hash 1598a49fe468, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

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post-labor-economics scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

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skills/domains/economics/post-labor-economics/SKILL.md · 255 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 255 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Post-Labor Economics Guide

Overview

Post-labor economics studies the economic consequences of advanced automation -- the possibility that AI and robotics will displace human labor at a scale and speed that overwhelms traditional adjustment mechanisms. While technological unemployment is an old concern (dating to the Luddites and Keynes's "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren"), the current wave of AI capabilities has made the question urgent: what happens to labor markets, income distribution, and economic growth when machines can perform most cognitive and physical tasks?

This is not science fiction. The academic literature on task displacement, skill-biased technological change, and automation risk has produced substantial empirical findings and theoretical frameworks. Researchers from economics, political science, sociology, and computer science are converging on these questions.

This guide covers the key theoretical models, empirical evidence, policy proposals (UBI, robot taxes, stakeholder funds), and methodological approaches for studying the economics of automation. It is designed for researchers entering this rapidly growing field and for those in adjacent disciplines who need to engage with the economic arguments.

Theoretical Frameworks

The Task-Based Model of Automation

The canonical model (Acemoglu & Restrepo, 2018, 2019) decomposes production into tasks rather than jobs:

Production = f(Tasks performed by Labor, Tasks performed by Capital)

Key dynamics:
1. DISPLACEMENT EFFECT
   - Machines replace humans in existing tasks
   - Reduces labor demand, depresses wages
   - Concentrated in routine cognitive and manual tasks

2. PRODUCTIVITY EFFECT
   - Automation lowers costs, increases output
   - Some gains flow to workers via cheaper goods
   - But distribution depends on market structure

3. REINSTATEMENT EFFECT
   - New tasks created that require human comparative advantage
   - Historically: ATMs → bank branch expansion → more tellers (temporarily)
   - Question: Is this time different? Will new tasks emerge fast enough?

4. NET EFFECT
   - Historical pattern: displacement < reinstatement (net job growth)
   - Current concern: AI attacks both routine AND non-routine tasks
   - Speed of displacement may exceed speed of reinstatement

Read the full file on GitHub · 255 lines

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post-labor-economics is a skill published in the GitHub repository wentorai/research-plugins (291 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 2,591 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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