I'm a fervent watcher of the show "How it's Made" and it blows my mind how an enormous amount of manufacturing is still done by hand. Particularly any seamstres

I'm a fervent watcher of the show "How it's Made" and it blows my mind how an enormous amount of manufacturing is still done by hand. Particularly any seamstress, weaving, buffing, sanding or carving. The show generally covers North American manufactures where you would expect far greater automation but empirically I have observed the opposite. For example the other day I watched a Canadian worker skillfully weave a hammock. It looked like it could have been automated but I lacked the mechanical mind to envision how. So given that manufacturing is actually a small subset of the economy but probably the most viable for automation (ie robots) its sort of disturbing to see an almost regression particularly in North America (again my empirical observations). Service based jobs like hospitality I would imagine to be far harder to automate (or maybe not).