alt Hacker News> No people ever wanted to do this kind of work anyway
No one ever wants to do most of the work they do. That is the literal definition of work, as opposed to a hobby. You do it because otherwise you and your children starve. Job satisfaction is optional (and may cut into your salary).
I have strong doubts that that is actually the definition of work.
A lot of work happens (or happened) because everyone is in agreement that it kinda should be done.
Like for example, you do need food so someone will probably have to do the things that lead to there being food.
These things of course aren't always fun. Who wants to collect cow manure after all. But they pay into something where everyone agrees that it should be happening and it should do so as the result of a collective effort.
The stuff I was talking about either has no such meta layer or has so many layers of meta, that it is incomprehensible for normal human minds, which, evidently, makes people miserable.