Daniel Priestley
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Oh, no, it's actually blue collar work with your hands.
You talked about supply and demand.
The government disrupted the natural way children go out and find opportunities in the world by making university loans come along.
And they said, oh, everyone can just take out a university loan and go to university.
In fact, you must and you should go to university, get yourself in debt or else you'll never get a job anywhere if you don't do a university degree.
And lots of young people who should have been plumbers, electricians and concreters and bricklayers
when often got a master's degree in the mating habits of butterflies and some random degree that doesn't have a job attached, and they ended up in $60,000, $70,000, $80,000 worth of debt to get this degree that no one was asking for, that market distortion means that we now don't have many plumbers and electricians and the blue ocean is now being a tradesperson.
VIP stuff will go up.
In fact, Jevlin's paradox would suggest...
that a lot of the dehumanizing repetitive work will go away.
But actually, if there are AI bots that are really good at setting appointments for a VIP human person to have a conversation, then that work will go through the roof.
Because one of the reasons that people, like right now,
Most companies wish they could have more VIP conversations, but the appointment setting, they don't have a lot of the low-level appointment setting stuff happening.
And if the appointment setting stuff, if the cost of that goes to zero, then the affordability of the VIP-level treatment becomes much more feasible.
What's nice about some of this is that many of the jobs here are jobs that a lot of people don't actually like doing.
They are repetitive and dehumanising.
They're late night, they're early mornings.
So potentially...
provided there is a Jevlin's paradox that something happens that's more fun, more humanising, more interesting, more VIP, more chaotic and, you know, all of that sort of stuff, it could be a very positive thing.
Fast food workers.