It's like it always was just on steroids. You can't have 3 felony convictions, face tattoos and no education and still expect to find a job that provides a "decent living" no matter how desperate businesses get. OTOH, if you have marketable skills and a personality this side of toxic it should be easier than ever.
That's probably the understatement of the year. Finding a competent employee was hard before, it's all but impossible now especially if you're doing anything that requires a certain amount of skill and intelligence. IMO that's the real reason you see the wealth gap continue to widen and so many protesting about jobs and money - there just aren't enough smart, skilled people in the general population to fill all the needs of the modern workplace so you have a bunch of businesses desperate for employees yet there are still tons of people who can't find a job that pays a decent living. The gap there is just too large.
We always want to fall back on training and education as the answer but there's a huge chunk of the population that can be given all the training and education in the world and they'll still be completely incapable of performing even a moderately challenging job, and their numbers are growing. What do you do with all those people who lack the smarts and the emotional intelligence to ever do work that has meaningful value? Back in the day we would give them a shovel and tell them to dig coal, or hand them a wrench and have them install bumpers on an assembly line. Today the option is cooking fries or stocking shelves but even those will be automated away at some point.