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People do want to work! Loads of people build all sorts of things for the joy and satisfaction of the craft. Plenty of people volunteer to help people - literally the definition of doing something you don't have to do! Anyone that says that isn't work is delusional.
We need a new word for what we call "work". No one wants to be exploited for their effort, but most people have always had the desire to do some sort of work.
not true for me, at least not in any conventional sense of the word. I would call it "function" maybe but that can be abstract and includes idling.
Consider a bridge. Its purpose is literally to stand there and not move at all. It is as far away from "work" as anything could possibly be. Any action, any movement which you might call "work" is one that the bridge is supposed to NOT fulfill. It is not supposed to move. It is not supposed to do anything. It is supposed to stand perfectly still, do nothing at all, idling. That is its function, but it is not work, no matter how you define work.