I admit it is reductionist but it's also true. Even in your example, not many are preparing a nice meal for themselves from scratch. Even farmers who would have

I admit it is reductionist but it's also true. Even in your example, not many are preparing a nice meal for themselves from scratch. Even farmers who would have the cows to slaughter and the vegetables to harvest still need to buy their spices, grill, the gas or charcoal for the grill, etc. So even these nice tasks are dependent on the rest of civilization to do their part of the collective work. Many jobs are a bad experience, but comparing it to nice activities is just focusing on the fruits of this same labor done by someone else. Some people get lucky but even in a perfectly fair system, work is needed, things need to be fixed, cleaned, prepared etc.