> I think the problem we have is that destroying a human body with mindless repetitive tasks is often still "cheaper" than engineering an automated solutions.

> I think the problem we have is that destroying a human body with mindless repetitive tasks is often still "cheaper" than engineering an automated solutions. But this is the majority of jobs that humans have right now globally. There's a reason why it's called "backbreaking labor", it literally breaks down your back. Everything from agriculture to mining to construction to manufacturing to logistics. The world is full of intrinsically unergonomic jobs that slowly grind human bodies down. It's just that we've decided that one set of these jobs we arbitrarily care about and the rest, we give a collective shrug to. Like, if you look at the image at the top of this article: https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-12-29/what-it-s-be-rice-farmer https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-12-29/what-it-s-be-rice-far... this is the reality for hundreds of millions of rice farmers across the globe right now and our collective response ranges somewhere between cringey romanticism of the task to a shrug of "whaddayagonnado?"