? Trades people in the US are making really good money right now, and that’s because

Look up the average age of plumbers, electricians, and welders. What happens when a body of knowledge living in the collective heads of an aging population gets removed from the labor pool faster than we can get younger folks interested in learning that information?

Wages are high right now, in part, because finding a highly experienced, capable tradesman is constrained by the available supply in a given geographic region.

Current-gen AI isn’t great. It’s a stepping stone on the way to something that might be great, if we can figure out how to make it be something other than an accelerant for a species-ending ecological disaster.