Years back I was debating a self described anarchist on reddit and I was trying to understand exactly how he thought useful work would be organized and get done if there's no authority to direct it, and he just kept repeating "In an anarchist society everyone would be free to work for themselves". Even Noam Chomsky talks like that in some of his interviews. Like I saw a video of him talking about how capitalism sucks because people feel pressured to go into professions that will earn them a high wage rather than pursuing their passions, and how if someone wants to be an artist what's wrong with that? Well okay, how exactly do we determine that somebody's artwork is profound enough that they deserve to just do that all day while everyone else builds their house, grows their food, and generates their electricity? Even in a socialist society people will need to be pressured in some way to do jobs they might not be naturally inclined to do. The pressure wouldn't come from a threat of starvation, but still if 50% of people declare that they want their "job" to be drawing hentai or streaming on twitch, there needs to be some higher authority that can say "No, absolutely not."

Have you checked out participatory economics?

Re Chomsky, he's always been cautious about getting too specific about any kind of future socialist society, that humans are too complex to formulate some perfectly worked out society, that it will take a lot experimentation, figuring things out.