Automation helps, but there are plenty of jobs requiring physical labor. They’re often low paid from a worker’s perspective and very pricey from a retail custom

Automation helps, but there are plenty of jobs requiring physical labor. They’re often low paid from a worker’s perspective and very pricey from a retail customer’s perspective. Consider child care. Often this isn’t about middlemen taking profits, but rather because the work doesn’t scale and people expect pay similar to industries that do scale. Office work often is in industries that scale very well and they can afford to be less efficient.