Salarymen, Specialists, Small‑Business Split

Work after AI will cluster into three durable categories: 'specialists' who keep narrowly defined, hard‑to‑automate tasks; 'salarymen' who coordinate, manage, and integrate AI across organizations; and 'small‑businesspeople' who bundle local, bespoke services that resist standardization. The change is driven by task reorganization — AI replaces discrete tasks while firms and workers reorganize roles around what remains uniquely human. — Framing the near‑term labor transition as a three‑way split clarifies what education, tax, and social‑insurance policies should target and makes debates about AI and jobs more concrete.