Sounds to me like you're bitter and not trusted with business operations for any of those companies.
No. In fact, the area I live is representative of the vast majority of the United States. Most of America is rural, by a huge margin.
> when change comes
No. You mean if change comes. If you're going to say the change you envision will come you must tell me how you're going to do it. Otherwise you're full of shit.
> Every single one of those trades has companies doing much better because they've adopted technology, even a spreadsheet for paying taxes and tracking hours.
Sure, that might be true. And it doesn't matter at all, because the ones here are doing just fine. To incentivize them to use your whiz bang techno doodad you need to do better than "some other guy somewhere else likes it". You need to show how it'll transform their lives for the better. Folks don't scare easily.
America has an 80% urbanization rate, but I guess you mean by land area?
You're not replacing any of that anytime soon with a LLM chatbot. Stop pretending.
Please tell me how LLMs are going to change welding, and how thats going to hit everyone hard.
They cant even code well, its just people who've never been that great at programming that super impressed.