# A Spectre Will Haunt Again

the industrial revolution, rerun — this time for white-collar work

A spectre is haunting knowledge work. The first industrial revolution had its "Engels' pause" — decades where output soared but wages didn't, and the Luddites smashed the looms. This piece argues the same script is loading for white-collar labor as AI eats cognitive tasks, and asks who ends up on the wrong side of the curve this time.

**中文原文 · 知乎:** https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/2028673928424376096

**English original · X:** coming soon