Isn't that generally what ... all jobs are? Automation Cost vs Longterm Human cost... its why amazon did the weird "our stores are AI driven" but in reality was cheaper to higher a bunch of guys in a sweat shop to look at the cameras and write things down lol.

The thing is given what we've seen from distillation and tech, even if its 6,000/task... that will come down drastically over time through optimization and just... faster more efficient processing hardware and software.