[cogman10]

It's always a little weird the jobs that are easy to automate vs the jobs that are hard to automate.

Jobs that require interaction with the physical world and people will almost always be a hard to automate thing. There are simply too many variables.

The real problem is when we make the results of a job worse to aid in automation. The prime example here is tomatoes being breed with thick skin, picked before ripened, and then squirted with some chemicals to make them red so people will buy them. All while sacrificing taste.

[MontyCarloHall]

Your observation is closely related to Moravec’s paradox of artificial intelligence: “It is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox