You're not going to just decentralize every job. Toilet washing doesn't sound glorious but janitorial and especially plumbing work comes with some significant s

You're not going to just decentralize every job. Toilet washing doesn't sound glorious but janitorial and especially plumbing work comes with some significant skills you have to learn. And besides that, if you spent just 30 minutes for each 'side' job, you'd find everybody in that building working about 20 hours a day and not getting a lick of programming done. There's an enormous amount of work to maintain a 10 story facility, and the vast majority of it is like most work - not exactly pleasant. Beyond this your argument that janitors have ideas/ambitions/etc again supports a capitalist system. There is nothing overtly stopping these people from trying to take their shot, difficult though it may be. Jack Ma is a good example there. He came from extremely humble beginnings and couldn't get a job even at KFC. He didn't ended up manually biking 'rich' tourists around to get by. In the process he ended up learning English and got exposed to some ideas and concepts that weren't so well known in China. A bit of luck, a lot of ambition, and some great ideas - and he's now one of the richest people in the world. He started his first business when he was already in his 30s, got his first computer when he was 33. Really I think people are unrealistically critical. Today every child in developed nations has the internet and guaranteed access to basic education and effectively guaranteed access to advanced education. Einstein, for instance, was teaching himself calculus at age 12. That sort of extreme outlier in ability, and maybe even more importantly - ambition and motivation, is not something or somebody that's going to end up end up toiling fields in modern society. And the privileges we all have today are largely a product of the extremes of wealth that allow people to be educated for decades before having to return a single cent back to society.