Capitalism After the Death of Labor

NotebookLM Deep Dive into David Shapiro's upcoming book, Labor/Zero. Shapiro argues that as AI and robotics render human labor economically obsolete, society must abandon its reliance on wages and transition to a capital-based social contract. He posits that to avoid a dystopian collapse of the consumer base, we must decouple survival from employment by implementing Universal Basic Capital and broadening asset ownership. The book serves as both a theoretical treatise and a practical roadmap, outlining how to restructure global policy and personal finance so that every individual becomes a stakeholder in an automated economy rather than a displaced worker.