If everyone did work that was interesting, engaging, and meaningful, society couldn't function. I've seen many, many people cite this as some kind of provable,

If everyone did work that was interesting, engaging, and meaningful, society couldn't function. I've seen many, many people cite this as some kind of provable, immovable fact -- a way to shut off the mind towards that line of thinking. I'm not so sure. I see no inherent reason why some people should need to suffer merely to stay alive, why some people, or perhaps many people, should live lives of futility and meaningless work. Frankly, I'd like to think that human ingenuity can overcome even that. Slavery was considered normal until a few hundred years ago, why should crappy work be any different?