I'd prefer the reverse approach. Let's value the "regular Joe" instead of cheapening everyone.
Go back 100 years and 15 percent of the population was "Farmer", and 30 percent were in some sort of "domestic" work.
Most modern jobs are a product of the fact that technology continues to advance. And by all measures it does not look like "ai" is going to change that.
The concept of value implies exclusivity by design.
In practice automation is great, as long as it doesn’t hit “the ones that matter” (a label which they themselves assign). I find it very hard to not imagine the smallest, tiniest violin playing the saddest song for them.
Again, “respect for mathematicians” and “their work”.. please. Just produce results. That’s all that ever mattered and let’s not change the rules of the game just because they don’t suit you anymore.