Jobs
| Job | People | Need covered | Time multiplier | Hours a week | Waitlist | Status |
|---|
The standard week shrinks as automation frees up labor; a 2x multiplier halves it. Care and missions need trained people, so rotation can't fill them; free education slowly raises everyone's skills.
Everyday teams
Bars show each team's share of users. Amber = new team in its runway, red = failing.
Exams
| Group | Qualified for research |
|---|---|
| Majority (80%) | |
| Minority (20%) |
Both groups have the same true skills. People retake exams yearly, so some misjudgment comes from skills that grew since the last exam.
Regions
| Region | People | Change | Housing price | Quality of life |
|---|
Price 1.00 = normal. Construction adds homes where prices are highest; land-constrained regions build more slowly.
Missions chosen by citizens (illustrative)
Illustrative only: progress grows with the effort people put into missions. It is not calibrated to real research timelines and is not a prediction.
Where the numbers come from
Job mix and behavior are calibrated mostly to OECD economies; regions use world population figures. Anything not listed here (how much people like each job, team quality, mission difficulty, exam noise) is an assumption with no good data behind it.
| In the model | Value used | Real-world basis |
|---|---|---|
| Standard work week | 33.5 h | OECD workers average about 1,700–1,750 hours a year. OECD |
| Care and health jobs | 10% | One in ten OECD jobs was in health or social care in 2019. OECD Health at a Glance |
| Care demand growth | 2.7% a year | OECD health and social care employment grew 30% from 2013 to 2023, driven by aging. OECD 2025. WHO projects an 11.1 million health worker shortage by 2030. WHO |
| Food and farming | 5% | About 4.8% of OECD employment was in agriculture in 2019. ILO modeled estimate |
| Construction | 7% | 7% of the world's employed work in construction. ILO |
| Mission research | 3% default | Researchers are about 1–1.7% of jobs in leading OECD countries (Korea 17.3 per 1,000). The default is set higher for a mission-driven world. OECD via Statista |
| Unpleasant and hazardous work | 8% | Assumption: no single statistic matches this category. |
| People able to qualify for research | about 40% | 41% of OECD adults aged 25–64 have tertiary education. OECD Education at a Glance 2024 |
| Effort under equal pay | 90% default | Assumption. At Safelite, switching to piece rates raised output per worker 44%, and about half came from people working harder. Lazear, AER 2000. Most of today's jobs are not piece-rate, so the default loss is smaller. |
| How much people value free time over a nicer job | modest | Workers would give up 8% of wages to work from home and 20% to avoid short-notice schedules, but most won't pay for flexible hours. Mas & Pallais, AER 2017 |
| Region populations | 8.1 billion | Approximate UN population figures by region (East & Southeast Asia about 2.3 billion, South Asia about 1.9 billion, sub-Saharan Africa about 1.2 billion). |
| Wanting to live somewhere else | about 16% | People strongly prefer their home region; tuned so that roughly 16% would rather live elsewhere, matching the share of adults worldwide who would like to migrate. Gallup 2021 |
| Extra effort from loving your work | 30% default | Assumption. Intrinsic motivation is strong for interesting work and weak for routine or unpleasant work; there is no direct measure for a world without pay differences. |
| Housing supply response | 0.6 to 3.0 | The average US metro has a supply elasticity of 1.75; land-constrained coastal cities are below 1 (San Francisco about 0.66). Saiz, QJE 2010 |
| People reconsidering where they live | 5% a year | 11.8% of Americans moved in 2024, about 2.1% across state lines. US Census via GlobeSt. 16% of adults worldwide would like to migrate permanently. Gallup 2021 |
| Automation of routine work | 2% a year | 27% of OECD jobs are at high risk of automation; the model spreads that over roughly 15 years. OECD Employment Outlook 2023 via RTÉ |