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Uber Founder,Travis Kalanick: when everything is fully automated in the world , that “plumbers become LeBron”. Listen to this, he’s actually right.

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Matt8 months ago

If we do see a massive increase in demand for Plumbers, this premium will only exist for a finite period of time. Rest of talent will train to become plumbers, increasing the supply of plumbers. Risk of oversaturation. This is what happened for SWE.

Dhru8 months ago

The LeBron of plumbing

Advik Jain8 months ago

the irony of the guy who automated rides being bullish on physical labor is not lost on me

Juan8 months ago

If he truly really believed that , he would be in plumbing school. He just doing same ol RockerFeller and Ford and get people educated on what they can exploit them next. He is aligning what hispockets will need : AKA uber for plummers and buildings managers .

kon8 months ago

my plumber neighbor makes 200k Lmaoo

PGAGI8 months ago

The real shift is how AI floods the market with cheap cognitive work while physical precision stays rare. It's like turning blue-collar expertise into the new elite tier.

Matt Teixeira8 months ago

So machines can build buildings, but not install the plumbing?

sahit8 months ago

bullshit there will be a ai powered glasses to guide you through plumbing, you just have to listen to it's instructions

Steve Martin8 months ago

why can't the robots just do the plumbing

meltonshrugged8 months ago

Task rabbit

mathias coudert8 months ago

A locksmith at night already charge the same hourly rate than lebron… and we don t even have everything automated with AI yet!

Shirisha8 months ago

The robots would do the manual work

Miami Lawyer Dad8 months ago

So robots can built buildings but they can’t do plumbing? Why? Serious question

DQD8 months ago

Wait for robotics to catch up…

David Webster8 months ago

ive got a plan

Adriana Sobota8 months ago

the scariest part is most startups are still hiring for the old world while the new one is already here

Gregor8 months ago

Automation could also mean entrepreneurs become freelancers, working on passion projects instead of traditional employment, which is a different kind of freedom.

TJ Tommy8 months ago

In an AI world, creativity and know how in the real world will be the new currency. Anything that can be done in software will be replaced by AI.

Derek Staloch8 months ago

What if people don’t want to be plumbers?

Misha8 months ago

@grok how long would it take to teach a human to fix 90% of common plumbing issues?

Mihai Matei8 months ago

@grok what do you think about this take?

Is this true?8 months ago

I believe people are overreacting to this. What does AI have to do with plumbing? Will we need more plumbing services? No. If anything, there might be way too many plumbers because AI.

Magnet Ghost8 months ago

Learn a trade.

Axel Boch8 months ago

I agree but using LeFloop as the example is not a great idea

Martin Bochukov8 months ago

meanwhile my agent hiring a human to do the plumbing

Daal-Baati Soorma8 months ago

As if robots are still in infancy!! He is an outright duffer! All engineering branches are benefiting from AI, low skill/dexterous jobs are very much on chopping block…

The Tectonic8 months ago

Kalanick's "plumbers as LeBron" thesis in full automation captures scarcity premium on irreplaceable physical labor. Realpolitik of AI: abundance in digital domains amplifies relative value in analog ones.

6pm8 months ago

This is so BS. To be a plumber you don’t have much learning curve. It’s easier than coding to switch jobs. How many plumber do we need?

adrian8 months ago

Stupid take. If out of every 1 million people who lose their jobs because of AI, even just 1% retrain to become plumbers, then it won’t be such a unique and well-paid profession anymore. And it’ll be the same with everything else.

Mihai Matei8 months ago

@grok is he right about this?

Matthias Giger8 months ago

He's making a thought experiment and they report it as a headline.

Jed Frankowski8 months ago

lol no he’s not

Yuri Gagarin8 months ago

another wealthy person who will only get wealthier because of AI telling everyone how great it will be.

Gerald Redlinger8 months ago

Not true The demand will create People will do it themselves And the robots are 10 years behind

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