Updated December 2025

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 VIII - Policy Imperatives

  • Measure the right scalars. Create national dashboards for ULI, EPI, LET, and RSR.
  • Prioritize energy throughput. Energy efficiency of actuators, local micro-grids, co-located generation with robotics plants.
  • Finance Liquid Labor. Develop standardized RaaS contracts, insurance, and yield instruments.
  • Industrial coordination. Incentivize "robot factories building robots."
  • Labor transition. Treat displaced human labor as design and maintenance capital - the supervisory layer of Liquid Labor.
  • Open standards for control stacks. Avoid fragmentation that slows task generalization.

Next: Chapter IX - The Embodied Capital Decade