{"product_id":"job-less-marcus-hutter-9781066828418","title":"Job-Less: Utopia Macroeconomics in the Age of AGI","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat happens when machines do every job better than you?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtificial general intelligence and advanced robotics will automate virtually all cognitive and physical tasks within a single generation.The question is not \u003cem\u003ewhether\u003c\/em\u003e this will happen, but what we do when it does. Three dominant responses get it wrong: optimists who trust history to repeat, pessimists who equate job loss with collapse, and skeptics who deny the technology altogether. All three fixate on \u003cem\u003ejobs \u003c\/em\u003erather than \u003cem\u003egoods and services\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cstrong\u003eJob-Less Utopia\u003c\/strong\u003e argues for a fourth position: \u003cstrong\u003ePost-Labor Prosperity.\u003c\/strong\u003e If machines produce the same or greater output, society's material wealth is undiminished. The real challenge is distribution, not production. Under adequate redistribution, mass unemployment is not a catastrophe: it is a liberation. The book develops this case along thirteen theses spanning six domains: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEconomics: \u003c\/strong\u003e Near-zero marginal costs, self-replicatingcapital, and solving the land bottleneck.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEmployment: \u003c\/strong\u003e Why the historical pattern of compensatingjob creation will break, and why forcing full employment producessocially wasteful bullshit jobs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWelfare design: \u003c\/strong\u003e How multiple complementary tax instrumentscan finance guaranteed income, even cost-neutrally.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDemocracy: \u003c\/strong\u003e Why functioning democracies will self-correcttoward redistribution as the displaced majority gains electoralpower.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMeaning: \u003c\/strong\u003e Why the \"crisis of meaning\" is a transientcultural artifact, neither a natural nor unresolvable humanlimitation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGeopolitics: \u003c\/strong\u003e How AI rentierism, trade asymmetries, andcapital flight can be managed through proven policy tools.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy this book is different: \u003c\/strong\u003e Nearly every individual idea here has appeared before. What is new is the \u003cem\u003esystematic architecture\u003c\/em\u003e: the first single-volume treatment integrating economics, welfare design, democratic stability, the question of meaning, and international coordination into one mutually reinforcing argument. The book includes a micro-level fiscal-feasibility proof, a Wittgensteinian property-cluster definition of\"job,\" a three-phase UBI transition roadmap with pre-legislated automation triggers, and a new tax category: the bullshit tax.Extensively illustrated with \u003cstrong\u003e41 diagrams\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003e30 tables\u003c\/strong\u003e, and grounded in over \u003cstrong\u003e250 scholarly references\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDr. Marcus Hutter is a polymath whose 35-year R\u0026amp;D career has ranged from medical software development to physics, mathematics, computer science, philosophy, and artificial intelligence. More recently his work has focused on AGI's economic, political, and social implications. He has been Professor at the Australian National University for most of his career.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marcus Hutter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1066828415\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781066828418\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Aixi Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d","brand":"Marcus Hutter","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":50666050486527,"sku":"9781066828418","price":45.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/job-less-marcus-hutter-9781066828418","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}