Everyone has complaints. I’d rather be working retail than in the fields 500 years ago, the mill 200 years ago, or as a manual human calculator 100 years ago. Or maybe some would disagree! Labor needs to be done. There is no utopia - in a socialist economy there are very few who get to hold the clipboards, everyone else works the fields or the factories.

I am not making a judgment on that, I was just pointing out that your counter-examples weren't really relevant to the point OP was making.