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*** No matter how shitty a job is you can always find someone who honest-to-god-actually ''enjoys'' doing it. It's like [[Rule 34]] of employment. Plus jobs aren't just about money, there is a social element to them as well. People enjoy getting out of the house, doing stuff, mixing with others, and feeling useful in society at large. I bet there is an employment ladder thing there too, y'wanna do #cleannicejob, well there is four hundred people wanting that, so we'll only give it to you if you've done #dirtynastyjob first.
**** You can find these people, that doesn't mean you can find ''enough'' of those people. Maybe you can find a dozen people who honestly enjoy cleaning out the future equivalent of a septic tank, but are they then going to clean out the septic tanks of the entire world?
***** Additionally, even if you find someone who enjoys doing X that doesn't necessarily mean they enjoy doing X ''on your schedule''. If you do something purely for enjoyment then, sorta by definition, you are doing it only when you feel like it and leave it sit whenever you don't feel like it. If you need job X done for circa 40 hours a week, with either snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night deterring the person doing it from their appointed rounds, then some kind of employer-employee relationship above the level of a hobby is going to need to be involved. Which implies somebody is gettin' paid in ''something''.
*** In one episode, it is mentioned that the Enterprise-D has some ability to clean itself (specifically, someone gets told that they don't ''have'' to clean up something, the ship will do that for them). And running the machines, well, that changes the nature of the job.
** I got the impression that officers were paid, but, as Picard said, "The acquisition of wealth is no longer our primary goal." So they get paid, but the majority of people don't care about the amount, just that they're contributing to society.
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