Automation & work · LUC ARDEN
When Robots Do the Work, Who Benefits?
Luc Arden asks a question that goes beyond robotics itself: if AI and machines make society more productive, who receives the gains? In The Way to Liberty, the effects of automation on employment, family income and shared prosperity become subjects of a fictional social experiment.
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From the workplace to the wider community
Behind every displaced job is a person with obligations, plans and a need for dignity. The book asks whether technological progress should be measured only in efficiency or also in the way its benefits are shared.
Its numbered proposals include a 60/40 relationship between human work and robotic production in certain settings, a technology dividend linked to automated public enterprises, and restrictions on dismissals decided solely by AI. Other passages explore AI agents and their relationship with real workers.
The volume is not a ready-made economic programme. It is an attempt to turn broad statements about automation into questions specific enough to debate: can greater productivity also mean greater security and more time for the people who live in that society?
These numbered proposals belong to Luc Arden’s fictional world. Readers can examine and challenge them in context, rather than mistaking them for legislation currently in force.
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