I was on a StartupBus to SXSW this year- at the pitching stage, one of the guys pitched an idea based around simplifying people's taxes. He was a qualified CPA himself, and had years of experience working in the tax industry. No-one volunteered to work on his idea. The winning StartupBus team was a site that let you make your own custom breakfast cereal.
I suspect that if we want to ask "why isn't tedious process [x] automated by now?", we should be looking at ourselves for answers.
(after the first day on the bus he and another guy broke off from their team to work on the tax idea- so it wasn't a total lost cause, but wasn't the highlight of the competition that it could have been)
I suspect that if we want to ask "why isn't tedious process [x] automated by now?", we should be looking at ourselves for answers.