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Benjamin Flores
The Uber founder thinks we're heading toward "LeBron James-level plumbers." Travis Kalanick argues that as we race to superintelligence, the bottleneck for most projects becomes skilled manual labor. Think about it. Every non-manual task gets 10x faster. Strategy, code, design, reports, all done in minutes. The bottleneck shifts to moving atoms. Building the office. Wiring the servers. Installing the equipment. Fixing the pipes. Skilled manual workers become the most in-demand people in every company. Not because blue collar is all that matters. But because it's now the only bottleneck to growth. When every company can spin up software in hours, the constraint is who can build the physical thing. Demand for skilled trades goes through the roof. This take is particularly interesting coming from the Uber founder. Everyone told him the taxi market wasn't big enough to build a billion-dollar company. He proved that supply creates its own demand. When someone has that kind of understanding of non-intuitive supply and demand dynamics, and he tells you skilled labor is the next bottleneck, you listen.
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