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You don't want to collect trash off the streets? Well, looks like our city will look like shit forever. You don't want to work as a cashier? Well, looks like our supermarkets will remain closed.
Most jobs are not fulfilling and would never be done voluntarily (at a relevant scale).
The idea of being forced to do any of the undesirable jobs would be a lot more tolerable if you only had to do it 1 week a month and could rotate the responsibilities with others. This becomes more complicated the more specialized the work gets, of course.
Its barely an inconvenience. And no job should be undesirable in a society that values the labor that it runs on.
I mean, no matter what, I'm going to prefer raking leaves over dealing with other people's trash. But I wouldn't complain about having to deal with other people's trash if I was doing it as a service to my neighbors who will return that service in kind because we all want to help each other out/want our society to function and not because I need to or I'll starve.