With generative AI it's pretty clear to see that automation is at a point resembling the Hellenistic era. Where the steam engine was possible, but no-one thought to create it because slave labor was cheaper.

There are huge initiatives to replace people who write, draw, design etc. But there a lot of jobs where people are breaking their bodies, that there's just no urgency to automate. Because that labor has been made cheap.

Automate the boring stuff instead!