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EXIT AND DISTRIBUTION · IIa

The Exit Induction

In this section: a. The Exit Induction b. The Exit Queue

In this essay

With AGI you don’t win the economy — you exit it. This essay sets out the induction: why each round of automation raises the return to leaving the wage economy, and why the queue to exit is itself the distributive question.

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The Induction Step

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Placeholder line chart: stylized exit share rising over successive automation rounds.
Figure 1. Stylized exit share by automation round. Placeholder figure — final chart forthcoming.

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The Queue

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Table 1 — Placeholder: stylized rounds of automation.

Round Sector automated Wage share Exit share
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2 Dolor sit amet 54% 9%
3 Consectetur 41% 22%
4 Adipiscing elit 27% 41%

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What Follows

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Citation

Rincon-Cruz, Manny. “The Exit Induction.” Prior Knowledge, July 2026. https://prior-knowledge.ai/essays/the-exit-induction/.