Stories & Testimonials
Voices from the movement—why people are joining
💬 Voices & Perspectives
These illustrative perspectives represent the kinds of people engaging with post-labor economics—from workers to researchers, parents to entrepreneurs.
I spent 20 years in manufacturing watching automation slowly take jobs. Everyone said 'learn to code.' Now AI writes code. These frameworks finally gave me language for what I've been feeling—and hope that we can build something better instead of just watching it happen to us.
I work in AI. I see what's coming. Most of my colleagues are in denial—'AI will just make us more productive.' But I've watched entire teams get replaced. PLE gave me a framework to think about solutions, not just problems.
What kind of world will my kids inherit? That question haunted me until I found this community. Now I'm learning about sovereign wealth funds and citizen dividends—actual mechanisms that could work. It's empowering to understand the possibilities.
Amazon already tracks my every move. Robots do half the work. I know my job has an expiration date. Finding PLE was like finding people who actually see what's happening and want to do something about it instead of pretending it's not real.
As a business owner, I should want cheap AI labor. But I keep asking: who buys our products if no one has income? The Economic Agency Paradox clicked immediately. We need customers to have money. That's not socialism—that's business sense.
Academic economics is too slow. By the time we publish papers, the world has moved on. David's approach—building frameworks in public, iterating with a community—is how ideas should spread in the 21st century. I'm learning as much as I'm contributing.
Self-driving cars are coming. Uber doesn't care about me. The government seems clueless. This community is the first place I've found people seriously thinking about what happens to folks like me—and proposing real solutions, not just 'learn to code.'
Most AI safety work focuses on alignment—making AI do what we want. But what about the economic disruption even aligned AI causes? PLE fills a gap the AI safety community has largely ignored. These frameworks should be part of every AI policy discussion.
I teach high schoolers who ask what career they should pursue. I used to have answers. Now? I tell them to be adaptable. Finding PLE helped me have more honest conversations about the future—with my students and my own kids.
I fund AI companies. I see the disruption from the inside. Most VCs think markets will sort everything out. But I've read enough history to know that's not guaranteed. PLE frameworks are the most serious thinking I've seen on managing this transition.