AI will lead to labor shortages, Bezos says in optimistic talk

Not unimaginable, given that the bottlenecks seem to be concentrating on high-level direction, relational work, and expert verification

At Amazon, due to their toxic work culture which led to high turnover, the joke was Amazon will run out of new hires, it will have to rehire previous employees.

They only look at it from the top. if jobsAvailable = True then economy = fine. But there is no viable desk job->trades pipeline. You can't upend millions of people's existing lifestyles from office jobs that provide a comfortable, climate controlled work environment, and a high enough salary to enter the middle class, and tell everyone "sorry, but hey there's a massive labor shortage in manufacturing and welding, go grab a hard hat"

So now, things bifurcate even more. You're either a highly specialized AI engineer of some sort, which will be highly competitive, or back to the factory you go and you can kiss your six figure salary and work life balance good bye. Oh, and you'll destroy your body in the process and probably die early. Yay capitalism?

There's no optimism there. Knowledge workers care about what jobs are going to be available, not just that any job is available.