as you’ve listed, there are answers within reach but switching costs are enormous and the labor market is locked into a set of known technologies that generate salaries, a low energy state that would require substantial energy investment in reskilling, but there’s no slack energy in the system for that and even if there was, the transition will have winners and losers, redistribute jobs, and if there’s one thing the labor mkt is terrified of it’s losing one’s job. disruptive technology shifts can be career ending for a lot of people … bottom line is that getting paid to shovel python slop has been historically lucrative