The post-labor debate has been running for two years now. The serious version — not the hot-take version — lands somewhere around 70–80% of today's knowledge work being automatable within a decade. White-collar work, not just assembly lines. The usual follow-up question: who's safe? The answer most people give: creative people. Strategic thinkers. People who "add context." People who manage AI. I think that answer is incomplete. The category that actually survives isn't a skill set. It's an output structure. The one category post-labor can't eliminate You can't automate an outcome you haven't defined. You can't replace a person who owns a deployed result, maintains it, iterates on it, and takes responsibility for whether it works. That category has a name: Outcome-Owner . Not task executor. Not prompt engineer. Not AI manager. The person who ships something, puts their name on it, and is accountable for whether it functions in the real world.…