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Labor economists predict AI will raise demand for caregiving and teaching, prompting a Psalm-shaped question about honor and repair.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Unfailing love and truth walk before you as attendants.
Psalm 89:14— NLTRead Psalm 89 (NLT)
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Fast Company reports that economists have predicted AI would automate coding, contract analysis, email drafting and other white-collar tasks, while leaving relational work such as caregiving, teaching, coaching and mentoring as harder for machines to replicate. The article notes that women dominate many of those professions and cites research by sociologist Paula England and colleagues showing that pay often declined when women entered occupations in large numbers, while pay and prestige often rose when men entered fields in larger numbers.
It also reports, citing a Wall Street Journal report, that much recent American job growth has come from healthcare and social assistance, and that California is increasingly being propped up by healthcare employment, while compensation has not yet followed.
The unsettling question is not whether care work matters. The report says AI may push economic value toward tasks machines cannot easily copy—caregiving, teaching, coaching, mentoring—while much recent job growth already sits in healthcare and social assistance. If those trends continue, relational labor may receive a new label: valuable.
The harder issue is whether the label will change the paycheck. The same article points to research showing that pay often fell when women entered fields in large numbers and often rose when men did. That history warns that recognition can arrive without reward, especially for the people who sustained the work while it was called instinct rather than skill. The report does not prove AI will lift wages, and the verse does not set a wage formula. It does challenge the assumption that a market can rename work without telling the truth about who carried it.
Psalm 89:14 places justice and truth together before God’s rule. A just response to newly valued labor is not merely a higher price. It is honest credit, fair compensation, and gratitude for the teachers, nurses, caregivers, and mentors whose work has long held communities together. Before prestige teaches us to honor care, we can ask how we value it now.
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