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Perhaps in hundreds of years they'll be able to deploy AI robots to poorer regions of the world to build basic utilities, mine resources, and even whole cities from nothing. Or have them depoloyed to current cities constantly repairing and optimizing infrastructure.

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If there's one thing that lower income countries have an excess of, it's people to perform labor. There's a reason why you don't see countries (e.g. China) introducing more automation until they rise to a certain income level.

Generally you're right, but also

a) You may not have skilled labor easily available for a niche like constructing a dry stone wall out of giant rocks, and

b) sometimes employing that labor via local firms can result in corruption issues.

Factorio style.

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