I am having a hard time thinking of work where you get paid yet you provide no benefit to the payee? Maybe some further insight is in order (since I am living

I am having a hard time thinking of work where you get paid yet you provide no benefit to the payee? Maybe some further insight is in order (since I am living in another world apparently). I was not speaking in absolutes. Of course there are exceptions. All I was saying is that it provides some incentive... Not only that, but you are applying today's economics to a dramatically different situation in which basic needs are met by machines. I don't think that works.