[skybrian]

Is there a better way to talk about jobs that only exist due to inefficiency? It seems important to know that they could be automated away.

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If someone is convinced that it would be so easy to automate away X annoying job that someone has to do, I would encourage them not to talk about it, but to get busy doing the automation.

Best case, they were right and the task gets automated away, now we don't need to talk about it at all. More likely, they might find that it's actually not as easy to automate away as they initially thought.