Why corporations automate easy jobs instead of hard jobs?

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[–]chadwickofwv 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You practically answered your own question. We automate the easy jobs because they are easy to automate. The hard jobs are also hard to automate. If it was easy to automate them they would have been among the first jobs to be automated.

In fact, many of the hardest jobs already have been automated, they are just not jobs visible to someone who has never performed hard labor.

[–]trident765[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There are things that are difficult for a person to do but easy to automate. For example, it can be tiring to hold an object in front of you for long periods of time, but it is easy to automate this by placing the object in a table in front of you.