Some of you may disagree, some of you may agree. If I can even get a letter to the editor published in the New Yorker when I'm a graduate student, I'll consider my 2,000,000,000 odd dollars paid for education well spent. I have a copy of said masterwork. Socialism is just about the most beautiful political system I have ever encountered. I mean that, if ever it had the chance to take off, it would mean no more rotting in low paying hard-ass jobs for epochs on end.
Answers are forthcoming.
Basically Marx says that no one should have to work in a job that they don't desire. So, in a socialist society, we would have people doing the jobs they love, and on top of that, since they're very good at these things, output would be high and efficient. Garbageman is one that pops immediately into my pants. No, what he really did was to write something brilliant. What he said was that, after capitalism progresses to the point where the competition is deadly, and technology is exponentially advanced, there will be such a surplus of machinery and products etc., so that after the collapse of capitalism, most jobs can and will be done by robots or what have you, and those that cannot will not need to be done.