I don't work at McDonald's you condescending dickhead, but what makes you think McDonald's is a necessity anyways? We could eat healthier locally prepared food and be better off for it. How "replaceable" someone's work is doesn't matter regardless, they're still the ones doing it and they're the ones generating value. Anyone could sit around having lunch meetings with other rich freaks, but the vast majority of people don't make as much as a C.E.O. does. Anyone could own a bunch of shit, sit on their ass, and pay someone else to, for example, manage a bunch of rental properties for them. The only difference between them and anyone else is they have money to do that, and most people don't. At least people working at McDonald's contribute something other than owning shit people need to live/work. At least they provide instead of leeching off other people's labor, taking the lion's share of the cut like the parasitic entity the owning class is. Furthermore, people do shit for free all the time. My dad was one of many volunteer fire fighters in my home town, they didn't make anything and he would wake up in the middle of the night and drive his own truck to go fight fires. I volunteer at the local soup kitchen when I have the time. People want to give back to their community. There's also a simple satisfaction in accomplishing something. Why do you think one of the most popular genres of video games are simulators, from truck driving to power washing there's a sim for nearly every mundane job out there, that people pay money for and play for fun. People like to do shit, and lots of shit needs doing. "Why wouldn't people just be sad and bored then starve to death?" is the dumbest fucking position you could take. Because that would suck, that's why. When some other dickhead isn't exploiting your labor while you make poverty wages there's also a lot more incentive to contribute. A lot of labor simply doesn't exist when production is based on need rather than maximizing profits as well. Just take more time off, get a hobby. A lot of useless jobs, like the people getting paid to destroy overstock products so poor people can't have them, wouldn't exist. What if, crazy idea, everyone's necessities were provided for, then were given the tools to pursue whatever type of work they prefer? Do you think people would take advantage of that, or not? As things stand, poor people are forced into shitty jobs they hate because the conditions created by profit incentives make them shitty. Flipping burgers doesn't need to be miserable, and the people doing it don't need to live in poverty so a faceless corporation can make even more money. If everyone was able to do what they wanted to without fear of living in poverty, a lot more people would probably be okay sweeping floors and making burgers. A lot more people would also be able to become scientists and engineers. Just think of all the potential Einsteins born in the wrong place, wrong time, who lived and died working in factories and mines.