I feel like this framing conflates personal and societal responsibility in an unhealthy way. At the end of the day we all benefit from specialization, that's t

I feel like this framing conflates personal and societal responsibility in an unhealthy way. At the end of the day we all benefit from specialization, that's the entire basis for our modern standard of living. I don't think it's the individual's responsibility to ensure that things are fair at a societal level. Not only would it be impossible given personal preferences and the subjective experience of work, but it can also have negative psychological consequences if one believes that work is not morally valuable if one doesn't dislike it. Now, if the OA felt entitled to his chosen career path regardless of economic reality then I agree that would be uncool, but I'm not seeing that here. The author is not looking for a handout. He is simply grappling with the tradeoff between optimizing for max remuneration vs the nature of the work itself.