Automation is its own supply and demand and growth limitations. You could flood it with capital, but if every company seeks to increase automation simultaneously, you won’t see an actual increase in automation. You’ll see an increase in the price of automation and an increase in job listings in automation.

Exact same position we are in.

Supply building is slow.

Demand is now.

And you can bet your ass companies are building automation. Long term job destruction is happening behind all of this.

> Today the problem is supply, not demand.

It is impossible to say this. Demand continues to outpace supply.

Did demand rise? Yes. Did supply drop? Yes. They are out of equilibrium. There is only one equilibrium created by both.

If there were fewer job openings than job seekers, I would agree that you could look to supply to fix it.

But more job openings than job seekers shows that the supply side sees unmet demand, is trying to meet it, but will not be able to catch up to demand. They cannot employ enough people to keep up with demand.

How can you have an economy that has more consumers than producers? You can’t. The result: inflation.

So in that sense, the demand side is the one that needs to addressed.

That’s likely hopefully the should-be-takeaway from this study.