The Other Shoe

in #blog2 months ago

And if anybody believes that one day AI is just magically going to come in and take that, like you're delusional on that, by the way, like AI is so far away from doing that. Walter, that's the other shoe.

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The other shoe is not only the guys that are doing the trades, you know, I mean, the individual professional, but the businesses where they have rigs, you know what I mean? They have like five, six units out there doing the work.

And as those guys are aging, they're looking for someone to sell that business to. So, you know, the thing I tell my kids is that if we find a good business, instead of spending a quarter million dollars on a worthless college degree, why don't we go buy up one of these, buy out one of these existing businesses and learn how to run? Yeah, well, that's smarter. Go ahead, Josh.

Yeah, no, go ahead. So, yeah, no. So, and again, this is something we should be talking about.

That's what I was bringing up the other day, right? There's more work than there are workers, actually. And now that the supply chain has gotten back in line post-COVID, there was a serious problem there of getting parts and everything else. Everything else is full steam ahead.

The other thing is, too, is that they say, you know, if you don't embrace AI, then you die. I agree with that a thousand percent. And the trades and businesses can utilize AI and marketing and actually gobbling up some market share if they learn how to introduce that into their marketing model of their business.