Unfortunately, I fear that physical labor does not have a very good reputation in most societies either - at least not if you take remuneration as an indicator, because despite the outstanding value of the work for society, it is often significantly lower than the remuneration for office work, for example.

Fundamentally, it seems to me that one of the most serious issues of our time is that value creation is not adequately remunerated. Instead, the highest salaries are paid to those who manage or regulate the work of others - whether they are pimps, porn producers, lawyers, or CEOs of a corporation: strangely enough, the highest salaries are almost always paid to those who do not create any value themselves, but merely organize the actual creation of value in some way.

This has been the case for quite some time, of course, but the imbalance is becoming increasingly severe - especially when you consider issues such as LLMs (where corporations benefit massively from the work of others without paying them anything at all).