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
Progress depends on how many trained people choose mission work.
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 |