Labor: Menial vs. Noble

[Gar Lipow]

The "Menial" vs "intellectual" is indeed a false distintion. But what is
NOT a false distinction is that some work is pleasant and empowering,
and other unpleasant, and disempowering. (And yes, I include both paid
and upaid work in this.)

What is not fair is that some people should monopolize the pleasant and
empowering work, while others do all the shitwork. And any future
socialist society that seek elementary fairness will have to find some
way of dividing both kinds of tasks fairly evenly -- so that no one is
stuck doing nothing but hardest type of labor, and no one has a job that
consists of nothing but the most most stimulating and pleasant of tasks.
(Exceptions would be the disabled who have a more limited choice of
possible work, and thus might indeed be allowed jobs that consists
entirely of pleasant and empowering tasks.)