I ask the following as someone who builds and tests models and also annotates data as a domain expert. Is labeling really undervalued by society? Or just by VCs

I ask the following as someone who builds and tests models and also annotates data as a domain expert. Is labeling really undervalued by society? Or just by VCs? I mean, if society depends more on the labeler (e.g. radiologists) why should society reward people for trying to replace the radiologists, regardless of the data quality? From a societal perspective where human factors scientists tell us that we need people to actually be employed to achieve a sense of self-worth and happiness, shouldn’t we punish labelers who might otherwise only enrich the capitalists and undermine the health of the nation’s workforces, and thus the wellbeing of the nation as a whole? Did we learn nothing from the underemployed, disaffected, demoralized, suicidally depressed Trump electorate? The Trump presidency may be a hot mess from which the country may never recover, but are these not the lessons that we ostensibly learned, that were the topic of millions of gallons of ink between 2016 and 2018?