LIQUID LABOR

The Embodied Productivity Race of the 2020s

My Research Essays on the U.S.–China Contest for the Time Bank of Machines

Chapter IV — The Generalization of Labor

Axiom 4: Labor becomes a continuous spectrum of agents, not a binary human/machine split.

We generalize labor into a unified scalar: ULIₜ = HₜκH + RₜκR

Where Hₜ = human labor-hours deployed, Rₜ = robot/machine labor-hours, κH, κR = capability multipliers (humans ≈ 1, robots > 1 if multi-task, > 1.5 if super-human precision).

As ULI rises and LLM approaches 1, economies gain temporal liquidity — the ability to reallocate productive time instantly. That is the time bank made real.


Next: Chapter V — The Role of Energy