Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 55 minutes ago
And now AI is accelerating the displacement.
In my recent paper **“The AGI Jobs Apocalypse Law,”** I laid out a Reversed S-Curve showing up to **97.5% of jobs could be displaced by 2034**.
At the time it was a theoretical model.
The Iran crisis is making it feel a lot less theoretical.
Because the real transition looks like this.
AI as tool.
↓
AI as autonomous economic agent.
↓
AI performing all information work.
### Stage one — Tool
Humans still direct everything.
Human decides.
AI assists.
Human executes.
Coding assistants. Writing tools. Research helpers.
At this stage AI increases productivity, but the human is still the center of the process.
### Stage two — Autonomous economic agent
AI begins executing tasks independently.
Human sets the objective.
AI plans.
AI executes.
AI iterates.
Autonomous research agents. Self-running software development loops. Automated trading systems. Autonomous logistics optimization.
AI is no longer just software.
AI becomes an **economic actor**.
### Stage three — All information work
This is the real singularity threshold.
Programming. Design. Research. Law. Finance. Engineering. Medical diagnostics. Media production. Management decisions.
When AI performs **all cognitive production**, the economy flips.
The physical world becomes the constraint.
The information world becomes automated.
Production becomes:
AI cognition
+ energy
+ robotics
= full economic output.
This is where Jeremy Rifkin’s argument explodes.
In **The Zero Marginal Cost Society**, Rifkin predicted information costs and energy costs collapsing toward zero. But he assumed human labor would remain the bottleneck.
AI removes that bottleneck.
The equation changes.
Industrial economy = labor constrained.
AI economy = energy and materials constrained.
That’s why economists talk about **post-scarcity systems**.
The limiting factors become energy, raw materials, land, and compute — not human cognition.
Your terminology actually maps the transition clearly.
**eSingularity.**
AI performs most information work while humans supervise.
**tSingularity.**
AI performs all information work while humans set direction.
At that point the economic unit is no longer the company.
It becomes:
Goal → AI system → output.
Which means the real problem of the next economic epoch isn’t production.
It’s **governance**.
It’s the same solution I proposed in **2014**.
Just updated for this reality.
Replace the startup of the few with **fully autonomous FoundUps for the 99%**.
Decentralized. Open. Bottom-up.
Where profits reinvest into launching more FoundUps.
Not charity. Not policy.
A **new business model** built on **Return On Compute**, not ROI.
The startup is the engine of inequality.
**FoundUps are the engine of repair.**
Our kids are watching.
The math hasn’t changed.
The clock has just gotten faster.
So the question is the same one I asked twelve years ago:
**Are you willing to change it so they actually have a future?**
Sixteen years building.
Still waiting for the world to catch up.
The first **peer-to-peer billion-dollar startup in the making**.
Built to usher in the **Fourth Industrial Revolution.**
foundups.com/litepaper.html
And now AI is accelerating the displacement.
In my recent paper **“The AGI Jobs Apocalypse Law,”** I laid out a Reversed S-Curve showing up to **97.5% of jobs could be displaced by 2034**.
At the time it was a theoretical model.
The Iran crisis is making it feel a lot less theoretical.
Because the real transition looks like this.
AI as tool.
↓
AI as autonomous economic agent.
↓
AI performing all information work.
### Stage one — Tool
Humans still direct everything.
Human decides.
AI assists.
Human executes.
Coding assistants. Writing tools. Research helpers.
At this stage AI increases productivity, but the human is still the center of the process.
### Stage two — Autonomous economic agent
AI begins executing tasks independently.
Human sets the objective.
AI plans.
AI executes.
AI iterates.
Autonomous research agents. Self-running software development loops. Automated trading systems. Autonomous logistics optimization.
AI is no longer just software.
AI becomes an **economic actor**.
### Stage three — All information work
This is the real singularity threshold.
Programming. Design. Research. Law. Finance. Engineering. Medical diagnostics. Media production. Management decisions.
When AI performs **all cognitive production**, the economy flips.
The physical world becomes the constraint.
The information world becomes automated.
Production becomes:
AI cognition
+ energy
+ robotics
= full economic output.
This is where Jeremy Rifkin’s argument explodes.
In **The Zero Marginal Cost Society**, Rifkin predicted information costs and energy costs collapsing toward zero. But he assumed human labor would remain the bottleneck.
AI removes that bottleneck.
The equation changes.
Industrial economy = labor constrained.
AI economy = energy and materials constrained.
That’s why economists talk about **post-scarcity systems**.
The limiting factors become energy, raw materials, land, and compute — not human cognition.
Your terminology actually maps the transition clearly.
**eSingularity.**
AI performs most information work while humans supervise.
**tSingularity.**
AI performs all information work while humans set direction.
At that point the economic unit is no longer the company.
It becomes:
Goal → AI system → output.
Which means the real problem of the next economic epoch isn’t production.
It’s **governance**.
It’s the same solution I proposed in **2014**.
Just updated for this reality.
Replace the startup of the few with **fully autonomous FoundUps for the 99%**.
Decentralized. Open. Bottom-up.
Where profits reinvest into launching more FoundUps.
Not charity. Not policy.
A **new business model** built on **Return On Compute**, not ROI.
The startup is the engine of inequality.
**FoundUps are the engine of repair.**
Our kids are watching.
The math hasn’t changed.
The clock has just gotten faster.
So the question is the same one I asked twelve years ago:
**Are you willing to change it so they actually have a future?**
Sixteen years building.
Still waiting for the world to catch up.
The first **peer-to-peer billion-dollar startup in the making**.
Built to usher in the **Fourth Industrial Revolution.**
foundups.com/litepaper.html
