Seriously?

Cooking, cleaning the house, mowing the lawn, driving to places, filling out tax returns, shopping for clothes or household goods....

Fully automated solutions for any of the above either do not exist or are prohibitively expensive.

Why have kitchen/house/lawn/car at all when you don't actually enjoy using them?

The alternatives are not prohibitively expensive, on the contrary. You have restaurants, apartments, parks and public transport as alternatives.

It seems to me that quite some people here want to get rich to afford hiring people to manage things that they don't actually want to own. That's why I think more money doesn't make you more happy, as happiness comes from the sense of accomplishment, not from being able to command an army of workers to work on things you don't care about.

> It seems to me that quite some people here want to get rich to afford hiring people to manage things that they don't actually want to own.

That's often due to them actually wanting those things but not for themselves but for showing them off as status markers.

How many of those do you hate simply because you're time poor? If other necessities were met so you didn't have to work would you still hate them?

I'd still hate the tax returns, but others like cooking and mowing I enjoy when I'm free of time constraints.

Not OP but I have a lot of time and cooking is probably the thing I hate the most in my life after cleaning. I don't enjoy it at all.

Folding laundry.

Robots are miserably bad at this, so far.

There are clothes that don't need folding and lifestyles that don't need clothes that need folding.

well, I take "folding" to mean "putting away". Eg, putting your socks in a drawer (usually balled up together, but I guess you could just toss individuals in there).. hanging up tshirts and sweatshirts, putting away your jeans and workout clothes..

Some kind of organization is ideal, because I often live out of the clean laundry hamper and it's a chore to hunt for stuff every time you need clothes.

When I'm not living with others, this problem goes away. I start out with things in the wardrobe and drawers but as I get distracted by the things I actually want to do I gravitate towards a sort of inbox(clean)/outbox(dirty) 'floordrobe' system. It's surprisingly efficient.

I do the same but having to hunt for clothes in the inbox sucks, and having to iron extremely wrinkled button up shirts sucks as well

I wear a suit of armour. Disrupt the folding industry.

So, join a nudist colony to avoid doing laundry?

Robots? Assuming you already have 7+ days worth of clothes simply hire a maid to come by once a week.

With a human you never have to worry about software upgrades, charging batteries, or wake up in a cold sweat in fear of your hired help violating Isaac Asimov's laws of robotics.

Humans are quite capable of violating the laws of robotics too!

> Humans are quite capable of violating the laws of robotics too!

Well, that could mean that robots may too violate the laws of robotics!

The question was “why can’t you automate it?”.

Automate doesn’t have to mean a machine is handling it. It means you don’t have to handle it. Human automation is a valid tool, in particular for things like housework.

Automate usually does mean to use machinery.

I open a car factory. It is fully automated.

See?

Besides, the original question is totally boring if you allow human automation. Of course I can hire someone to do labour. No one needs that explained to them.