Dec 12, 2024

50M Workers, $500K Output

A blueprint for adding 50 million effective workers and $25T of yearly GDP.

  • talent
  • automation
  • biotech

Thesis

The US can add 50 million net workers (or their productive equivalent) over a single decade by combining immigration, labor-force participation, longer healthspans, and automation that counts as “digital labor”.

  • Human inflows: predictable, rules-based pathways for globally mobile builders and families.
  • Participation: more housing + childcare + health that let people work.
  • Effective labor: AI copilots, robotics, and biotech-driven longevity.

Stack of Moves

  1. Talent Surge Visa

    • Points-based and employer-sponsored tracks running in parallel.
    • Clear 5-year landing zone to green cards and eventual citizenship.

  2. National Care & Housing Buildout

    • 5M units of modular, factory-produced housing targeted to job centers.
    • Childcare supply provided like infrastructure (permitting, capital, ops).

  3. Longevity as Workforce Policy

    • Fast clinical pathways for cardio-metabolic and neurodegenerative drugs.
    • Routine healthspan therapies subsidized for prime-age workers.

  4. Automation Everywhere

    • Tax-neutral treatment of capex vs. opex so robots + AI scale quickly.
    • Shared AI services for SMBs and public agencies.

Payoff

  • Target ~$500k GDP per worker by saturating capital, energy, and software.
  • $25T+ in new annual output once the stack matures.
  • A demographic dividend even without higher birth rates, because the country compounds human + digital labor simultaneously.