One of the most important ideas in David Graeber's magisterial book *Bullshit Jobs* is that the ground state of labor is to do a job that you are proud of and that matters to you, but late-stage capitalist alienation has gotten so grotesque that some people will actually sneer at the idea that, say, teachers should be well compensated: "Why should you get a living wage - isn't the satisfaction of helping children payment enough?"
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