Post-Labor Economics

What This Skill Does

The Post-Labor Economics skill is an analytical framework designed for modeling, simulating, and strategizing socio-economic environments where human labor is no longer the primary driver of production or distribution. By leveraging a structured directory-based memory system, this skill enables you to map out complex transitions from contemporary labor-based capitalism to automated, post-work economic models. It forces the decoupling of production logic from distribution logic, ensuring that automation-driven productivity gains are systematically addressed alongside equity and power dynamics.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, run the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/ivangdavila/post-labor-economics Ensure that you have permissions enabled for the ~/post-labor-economics/ directory, as the skill will generate specialized memory files including policy portfolios, indicator dashboards, and stress-test scenarios to maintain context over long-term projects.

Use Cases

• Automation Strategy: Planning how to integrate AI agents and robotics into industries while mitigating the impact on existing human labor markets.
• Policy Design: Architecting multi-tier policy bundles that address universal basic services, ownership equity, and social coordination.
• Systemic Stress Testing: Evaluating how a regional or national economy would handle rapid shocks to employment or supply chains.
• Economic Modeling: Developing 10+ year phased roadmaps for shifting resource allocation away from traditional wages to alternative income or access models.

Example Prompts

1. "Analyze a scenario where 40% of logistics jobs are automated by 2030. Propose a policy portfolio that addresses baseline income, retraining for care work, and asset ownership redistribution."
2. "Update my indicators.md file to track the ratio of energy-to-labor costs. Then, simulate the impact of these changes on local small producers over a 5-year transition phase."
3. "Review the current scenarios.md and stress-test our proposed basic services framework against a 20% contraction in traditional tax revenue."

Tips & Limitations

• Start with Mechanisms: The skill will refuse to provide policy recommendations unless you first define the production mechanism (e.g., automation, energy constraints). Don't skip this.
• Think in Bundles: Do not seek 'silver bullet' solutions. The skill is designed to evaluate policy portfolios that manage security, coordination, and ownership simultaneously.
• Human-Centricity: Always ensure your models reflect the diverse needs of displaced workers, young entrants, and care workers, as defined in the core logic. Avoid one-size-fits-all outcomes.