The Completed Abundance Economy: Transforming Land, Labor, Capital, and Entrepreneurship–Part II: Impact of AI Platforms on the Global Job Market (2026–2030)

In The Completed Abundance Economy Part I (Waford, 2026h) we explored the current state (2026) of our Tech Stack and evaluated the possible macroeconomic impact of these technologies using the Four Factors of Production as our metric. Drawing on many of the same 2025-2026 signals and secondary sources we used for Part I (i.e., labor-market risk assessments, corporate scaling narratives, and commodity-market commentary), this paper extends our analysis to the microeconomic effects of AI rollout on the economy by sector and by geographical region in the near-term (approximately 2026-2030). We describe the sectors of the economy that will be most affected by wide-scale job losses and those sectors that will benefit most from AI-augmented job expansion. We then describe the unequal effects of AI on the economically diverse geographic regions of the planet where the industrialized world will benefit from AI-driven increases in productivity and efficiency, while developing regions may lag behind without additional assistance from their more industrialized peers. Three additional papers in this sub-series will describe the effects of robotics, fusion, orbital Dyson swarms on the global economy, and, in a fourth paper in the sub-series, we also examine the shift from terrestrial to orbital AI datacenters, powered by Dyson swarms and cooled by space vacuum. An appendix provides synopses of the broader Homo Novus series for contextual continuity.