Significant proportion of Americans will serve the top 20% as nannies/assistants
Predictor: Andrew Yang · ep#236 "Andrew Yang: UBI Before UHI, Solving Job Loss, and the Future of Work | #236" · source
Prediction text
Significant proportion of Americans will serve the top 20% as nannies/assistants | you're certainly going to see a significant proportion of Americans uh whose job it is to serve the top layer, the top 20%. You're going to see nannies, you're going to see um personal assistants, you're going to see personal trainers
Verbatim quote
you're certainly going to see a significant proportion of Americans uh whose job it is to serve the top layer, the top 20%. You're going to see nannies, you're going to see um personal assistants, you're going to see personal trainers
Predictor: Andrew Yang
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Probability over time
Milestone chain
- 2024-03-01hitBLS confirms 2.2M U.S. domestic workers (nannies/caregivers/cleaners) baselineHow: EPI/DOL chartbook documents domestic-worker count baseline at ~2.2MSource: https://www.epi.org/publication/domestic-workers-chartbook-a-comprehensive-look-at-the-demographics-wages-benefits-and-poverty-rates-of-the-professionals-who-care-for-our-family-members-and-clean-our-homes/conf 95%
- 2025-09-04hitBLS Employment Projections 2024-34 published with personal-care/service growthHow: BLS publishes 2024-34 occupational projections; personal-care and home-health services among fastest-growing categoriesSource: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2026/article/industry-and-occupational-employment-projections-overview.htmconf 95%
- 2026-04-06hitAI-driven white-collar layoffs visible in 2026 monthly NFPHow: Goldman Sachs estimates AI cuts 16K U.S. jobs/month and adds 0.1pp to unemploymentSource: https://fortune.com/2026/04/06/ai-tech-displacement-effect-gen-z-16000-jobs-per-month/conf 85%Notes: Mechanism feeds Yang's thesis — displaced white-collar workers absorbed into service economy.
- 2027-06-01 → 2029-03-31pendingTop-quintile household services spending share rises ≥20%How: BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey shows top quintile household services spending up ≥20% vs 2024Source: BLS CEXconf 50%
- 2027-09-01 → 2028-12-31pendingPersonal-care + private-household occupations grow ≥15% vs 2024 baselineHow: BLS CES private-household-services + personal-care-aides employment up ≥15% vs 2024 averageSource: BLS Current Employment Statisticsconf 55%
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| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| killer | TK03 AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | 10.0% | 0.050 | 0.600 | +0.082 |
| killer | TK01 AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall) | 15.0% | 0.050 | 0.600 | +0.054 |
| killer | TK14 Superbubble Pop (S&P 500 -40%, Moonshot Capital Evaporates) | 20.0% | 0.050 | 0.600 | +0.027 |
| prereq | SEM_042 2025 will be the definitive year that agentic systems finall — Kevin Weil | 73.8% | 0.600 | 0.050 | -0.013 |
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| prereq | S_AGI_MID_2029 | AGI mid: Kurzweil 2029 path | agi_general_capability | — |
| killer | TK14 | Superbubble Pop (S&P 500 -40%, Moonshot Capital Evaporates) | — | — |
| killer | TK01 | AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall) | — | — |
| killer | TK03 | AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | — | — |
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| prereq | 246_016 | Dragonfly nuclear-powered octicopter arrives at Titan in 2034. | Space | — |
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| prereq | SEM_034 | True artificial general intelligence will be achieved between 2032 and 2042 — 'first we solve AI, then use AI to solve everything else'. | AI/AGI | — |
| prereq | 239_008 | Moon base will exist in 10 years | Space | — |
Raw metadata
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