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At its core, post-labor economics recognizes that productivity has been decoupling from human labor since the 1950s. The rapid rise of new technologies—humanoid robots, artificial intelligence, generative models—accelerates this trend, leading to a paradigm where most economic output may soon be generated not by human effort but by machines. This shift raises pressing questions: What happens when machines can perform all types of work? How do humans maintain dignity, purpose, and economic agency?