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 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