short termism
A few hundred years ago, framework knitting was a major industry in the UK, many people had a kniitting frame in their house making goods for money.
Now, 1 specialist Beeston factory that makes niche high end goods in the UK still uses them, a couple of museums have working knitting frames, their general use ended ages ago.
In general, automated machines do most of the production work that was manually done on frames.
In the future it may well be that AIs do some / most programming.
Many mainstream vocational skills deemed "significant" at any period end up being a historical footnote later on.
However, love of (& production of) literature, art, theatre, music etc. has still continued.
The "liberal arts" may well be the last bastion of humanity, due to the sheer complexity of the human condition, creating great literature will be outside the remit of automation for a lot longer than writig an app will be.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
