The Last Decade Of Employment: Why Hyperinflation Is The West's Destiny

If it wasn’t obvious to you already, it should be now.

The concept of a full-time job, and humans being productive members of the labour force, is dying.

Some may argue it’s already dead, and to that I would partly agree.

We live in an economy that is incredibly fake.

On the one hand, you have digital workers getting paid $150-250k to do spreadsheet work or build shitty little web apps with 3 users, justified because some executive with a huge ego wants to be seen as important and innovative.

On the other hand, you have nurses, teachers, engineers, plumbers - you know, people who actually do real things, in the real world - getting paid comparatively less.

How does this make any sense?

How is this a real economy?

It’s not.

And that’s why productivity has not increased due to the AI revolution so far.

Because productivity was never real in the first place.

If you’re a digital employee right now, unless you’re a complete moron, your best bet is to use AI to turn your 40 hour work week into 4 hours.

That’s how you get your real bonus.

Companies stopped abiding by the implicit social contract that hard work should be rewarded many years ago.

You are under no social obligation to comply with a system that is rigged.

The best way to get your bonus is to pretend to work hard and pocket all the extra hours AI should be giving you back.

Look at it like this.

If you’re a software engineer, you could use Claude Code for $200/month and it buys you back 20 hours a week.

What is your time worth?

Let’s say you value your time at $100/hour.

Fantastic, you’ve now just saved yourself 80 hours a month, equivalent to $8000/month. Subtract the $200 cost and you’ve gained $7800 in time back.

This is really how you should be looking at your life over the next few years.

Sure, you could stick with your typical 40 hour work week and be significantly more productive with your time on behalf of your employer, but why the TF would you? Are you an idiot?

If you are in a situation where your employer is going to give you a 3% CPI inflation salary increase, or even 10% (wow!), you’re looking at an extra $4,500 gross ($2,745 after tax) if you’re on $150k.

Hmmm…

$2,745 net in revenue, OR $7,800 in time?

No serious person is going to choose the former.

This is what’s really happening in most industries at the moment.

Technology - AI in particular - has made workers more productive, but they are not incentivised to care for the businesses they work for.

They can’t save up enough money to buy a house, so the extra money means nothing to them.

In other words, we have reached the final most volatile stage of the fiat monetary system.

The stage where everyone realises, all at once, that the currency is completely worthless.

Once this realisation hits the masses, the currency collapses very quickly.

How does this actually happen in reality?

We can’t say for sure, but we can speculate.

Here’s what I think could feasibly occur over the next few years, including who will be impacted the most.