Updated February 2026

LIQUID LABOR

The Embodied Productivity Race of the 2020s

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

by Uwe Jens Cerron


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