Menial Jobs Value

Those are menial jobs, not bullshit jobs.

There are other jobs that don't require being gross.

You just explained like 90% of working class jobs.

"Do they realize they are exchanging temporary wages for eternal futility?" Yes they do.and this isn't wrong either"If you could be pulling a rickshaw or labeling data in an air-conditioned internet café, the latter is a better job."

Unless you're in emergency services, your job is a make work job, too.

.... those jobs may not seem very valuable to you, but they are valuable to the people doing them, and possibly more broadly, to society.

Its funny how many people inflate their importance and think their occupation makes the world go round. In reality it takes a lot of people to keep everything in working order. Specially low wage labor is of disproportional importance. Work done by people who are often (or by definition) financially fragile. A good number of these (and slightly above) involve manual work in already harsh (if not hot) environment. When things get unbearable these people will look at their cards, fold and run away

You can't -- but that's not menial work.

Do you think all the people working your cash registers or mopping your floors can seriously be passionate about their work? How about driving cabs, or being a receptionist, or working at a call center? These are universally shitty jobs but very necessary. If we want everyone to have a "career" we should think about how we can get rid of these jobs.

People take all sorts of jobs because they pay better than others. I don't think there's anything sad about that.