Comment by ungovernableCat

The economic value in automating high skill and expensive labour that the most profitable corporations rely on is what attracts the most investment and effort.

Once you lose your job you'll find plenty of time to do all those menial tasks you hate wasting time on.

Jokes aside, programming and mathematics are just well ordered environments. Already digital and verifiable. Perfect for a GPU cluster to power through. The real world is big slow and complex in comparison.