History goes through loops and cycles. The AGRICULTURE economy has...
David Shapiro (L/0)@DaveShapi
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Aug 29, 2025
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History goes through loops and cycles.
The AGRICULTURE economy has been in decline for 2 centuries, and has bottomed out at a tiny fraction of what it used to employ.
In the meantime, the SERVICE and MANUFACTURING economies have taken off. But, manufacturing is following the same fat as agriculture, slowly but surely dying out, after peaking in the 1970's.
The service sector will soon follow.
Why?
Because AI, robots, and automation will replace much of the labor of the service sector. Knowledge work? Gone. Skilled labor? Soon to follow.
So what replaces it?
The fourth paradigm is the MEANING economy, which includes the "attention" and "experience" economy.
Based on this simple model, the meaning economy will be greater than >80% of the labor market by year 2100.
So what kind of jobs are in the meaning economy?
- Priests
- Influencers
- Fashionistas
- Musicians
- Actors
- Therapists
- Trip sitters
- Dancers
The key thing they all have in common? It's when you prefer to have a human there. That is the irreplaceable quality of human authenticity. (Assuming we don't get fully West World style humanoid robots of course!)
The AGRICULTURE economy has been in decline for 2 centuries, and has bottomed out at a tiny fraction of what it used to employ.
In the meantime, the SERVICE and MANUFACTURING economies have taken off. But, manufacturing is following the same fat as agriculture, slowly but surely dying out, after peaking in the 1970's.
The service sector will soon follow.
Why?
Because AI, robots, and automation will replace much of the labor of the service sector. Knowledge work? Gone. Skilled labor? Soon to follow.
So what replaces it?
The fourth paradigm is the MEANING economy, which includes the "attention" and "experience" economy.
Based on this simple model, the meaning economy will be greater than >80% of the labor market by year 2100.
So what kind of jobs are in the meaning economy?
- Priests
- Influencers
- Fashionistas
- Musicians
- Actors
- Therapists
- Trip sitters
- Dancers
The key thing they all have in common? It's when you prefer to have a human there. That is the irreplaceable quality of human authenticity. (Assuming we don't get fully West World style humanoid robots of course!)
