The Coming Labor Disruption: General Strikes and Human Cartels

Warehouse robots are ready now. Dark factories are coming this year. But residential plumbing? Roofing? Electrical work? Still 5+ years out. Here's the realistic timeline for physical automation.

For most business tasks, AI models are already 'smart enough.' The real blocker is governance: approval workflows, audit trails, compliance mapping. Here's the infrastructure that's actually missing.

The tech industry thinks humans will be 'exception handlers' for AI. Wrong. Liability structures, tacit knowledge, and professional self-interest will keep humans in the loop for reasons that have nothing to do with AI capability.