Red Beacon Daily News 06.18.2026 BEZOS: AI Brings Labor Shortage?

A Beacon Daily News June eighteenth, twenty twenty six. I'm your host James Walton. Today's broadcast is brought to you by Disastercoffee dot Com. The United States and Iran signed an agreement on June seventeenth to end the nearly four month long war. US official told The Epic Times. The Memorandum of Understanding the MoU, which involves reopening the Strait of Horn moves, Tehran, halting its nuclear weapons program, and potential future economic relief if i Ran adheres to the United States demands, is now in effect after President Donald Trump signed it while in Versailles for the annual G seven Leaders Summit. Details of the interim deal were revealed by senior US official in a call with reporters earlier Wednesday. The agreement entails i Ran immediately reopening the Straight without tolls during a sixty day period of negotiations. I Ran also agreed to at a minimum, reduce its stockpile of enriched geranium if i Ran responds favorly to the deal will allow the future economic relief from regional partners in the form of three hundred billion in reconstruction fund for damage incurred during the war. The US official had said that the United States will not be directly contributing money to the fund, only helping with its development. The beat goes on, the beat, The drum beat of war goes on. Is it over? Is it truly over? I mean, I'm elated. I want it to be over, right, I'm about had it with it all. I don't know about you. I'd like to see war over. We got bigger fish to fry, right, we got a lot bigger problems, more greater things to worry about. Better, there are things to do then shoot unmanned explosives at each other. I could folly volley unmanned explosives at one another at country to country. So I think I want to get into Jeff Bezos. Jeff Bezos had some things to say about artificial intelligence. You're AI assistant here. We've got a bit of a good news situation. It's very interesting man to hear the Amazon lizard himself come out talking about AI, and the headline is forget the doomsday hype. Jeff Bezos says AI is going to trigger a massive labor shortage instead of stealing your job. Speaking at the Viva Tech conference in Paris, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos delivered a highly controversial, hyper bullish take on the future of work and his view, artificial intelligence isn't going to make humans redundant. It's going to create a severe shortage of them. Now. One of the reasons that rings kind of true in my head is because we are going to have a bit of a shortage of people in the future. But this is different the bulldozer that won't replace you. Bezos directly challenged the pervasive anxiety shared by tech workers and economists alike, arguing that fears of widespread displacement are fundamentally missing the point. He says, quote, I know there's a lot of concern that AI is going to make humans redundant. I totally disagree with this point of view, and I think in fact, AI is going to create a labor shortage. Now, say what you want about Bezos, He's no dummy. Not to say that he's right, but you know, it is a thing. It is a thing. He specifically dismissed displacement fears for highly skilled professionals like software engineers and radiologists, arguing the humans possess an endless list of things they want to accomplish By lowering technical barriers, AI will unleash a massive wave of new projects industries, drastically increasing the global demand for human effort. And there is something there. I don't know if that's what's gonna happen. Right, You've got to understand pe these guys, bezos, these these lizards have massive amounts of money invested in AI. So anything they can do to sort of calm the general population down food the fears a little bit very important. But at the same time, as as a species, right, we tend to look at our life in the framework of weok the known framework. Here are the jobs. Here are the jobs that we do now here AI could do a lot of those jobs. What we struggle with is what are the jobs we don't know of, What are the jobs that haven't come, What are the industries that haven't come, What are the industries that don't even exist? Because we don't understand what they are yet, There's no doubt about it that some bit of AI will come through. There will be some level of ascension for the human species in the use of AI. I guess only time will tell, but it is an interesting little situation. We're gonna go low tech on the prepper tech segment today because I found a little bit of a loophole or a little bit of a connection by accident. And the connection is between and we're talking about emergency lighting today and it's not prepper high tech, it's prepper low tech today. But there's a connection between streaming technology, particularly lighting and off grid lighting, right or power outage lighting. With the advent of streaming and all of a sudden, everybody needs the proper ring light and the proper this light and the proper that light. And we want those lights not to plug into the wall, but we'd like to plug into a USB like into the computer, right, We want the ring light that goes into the computer. So the setup is self sustaining, boom or good. And it took me a little while to understand this, but basically, after a while I came to realize many of these lights are pretty low energy. They don't pool a bunch of energy. They work off very powerful LED lights, and they are powered by your computer's USB port, which means they can be powered by anything you plug USB into, right, i e. Power banks. So if you have four rooms in the downstairs, right, and four ring lights in in the downstairs or USB powered lights USB. Yeah, then four power banks can turn lighting, probably more lighting than you need on in a power outage. You can have a legitimate lighting setup. Everyone in your house can have a quote unquote lamp right that they could pull out being clicked on. And if you don't know to light a room really, well, you point you're in the dark, You point the light source at the roof, you know what I mean, and it really uses that white roof to really light the room up. Well, this is a this is a sweet fix. Okay, this is low tech, prepper tech USB powered light, small power bank charged. Put one in each of the rooms that you know you're gonna need lighting, right, you want one in everybody's bedroom. You want one in the living room, and maybe one that can move around go to the dining room, to the kitchen, whatever. It's too simple. Emergency lighting has gotten to a point thanks to technology where it is just simply too simple. Another one that I use in employee in the house all over the house are LED strip lights battery powered with an on off switch. There are a strip of lights. You can get them like ten feet long or six feet long. You can run them up your banister in the stairwell. You can run them behind the television so no one sees them, and then you press the button, Boom, a light comes on behind the TV, which really is not a big deal, but when it's pitch black, it's a huge deal. You can run them in your bathrooms, hide them in your bathrooms so that put them behind a mirror in the bathroom, put them, you know wherever, under the sink itself. Open the door, Boom, click the light. Now you got light coming out. Those things are incredibly powerful. They're like thirteen dollars for two or something like that. They're probably like sixteen dollars for two. Right. You put them behind every TV in the house. You put them on the banisters, up the steps in the pantry. Your emergency lighting issues are solved. You buy a big brick of double A batteries, triple A batteries, whatever they take, I think they take. Mind take double A and you're set. Man. How it goes out, you click click, click, click click, or you just show everybody where the switches are and they can turn them on like lights and off like lights when they leave the room. It really is a different world when it comes to emergency lighting period. So, ladies and gentlemen, the good news America today. Okay, that's all. That's it. The good news is gratitude. The good news is America today. And I want you to, uh to take some time today and be grateful this amazing nation that we inhabit, that we are lucky enough to be born in. Do you know what I mean? Nah, it's a good one. It's a good one. We could talk about Saint Passios Heios, Saint Paisios from the Orthodox Christian tradition and his comments quote, you are only you are only. You are truly free only when you are struggling. Hmm, you are truly free only when you are struggling. Something to consider. Now, let's get into Whitman as we head out the door on this red beacon daily dues poems the American poets are to enclose old and new for America is the race of races. Love them aboard is to be commensurate with the people. To Him, the other continents arrive as contributions. I mean, that is what we want, right. The other continents arrive as contributions. He gives them reception for their sake and his own sake. His spirit responds to his country spirit. He incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers and lakes not bad, walk, not bad at all. I think what Whitman might be. I think he might be the great American poet of all, because every lie where like individualism, rugged individualism kind of categorize and self reliance and independence kind of categorize the American Renaissance in poetry. Whitman always had the sort of patriotism heathered into his poems History of America, the patriotism, the militaristic fervor of the United States of America, sort of the volunteer fighting force that really defines the American military. It's a beautiful thing. Ladies and gentlemen. Share this podcast, Review this podcast, do me a favor. Let's get Red Beacon daily news spread to the people who want to hear it, who want to hear news, you know, AI information following the AI scenario as it unfolds, staying up to date with that, and of course our Prepper text segment understanding what kind of technologies out there that can get you and your family more prepared for the unthinkable. Okay, I appreciate you all. Thanks so much for any help you do to support us here at Red Beacon Daily News. It's been a lovely time and we'll see you tomorrow