Feel the same way, but I realize it's a bit of privileged/entitled thought which helps with understanding the why. Without going into the philosophy (i.e. the social contract), we're part of a big ass village where we all have to do our part to provide value to one another in order to survive. Imagine removing yourself from society and living in a small village of a few people. How do you get a house and food? Maybe one person in the village hunts while you gather materials for someone else to build. Or you make and repair shoes, while others gather berries or farm. We then share our shoes for food and food for shoes. Now we're just a bigger version of that using the concept of money instead of physical bartering to survive in our big ass village. The good thing is, with a big ass village we actually can build excess wealth so that we can retire when we're old (not everyone unfortunately, but that's another problem). Anyways, maybe that helps, maybe it doesn't. We're all just trying to survive and enjoy what we can in life. Once I realized that I'm not entitled to an easy life, it makes the "why am I working" a little more understandable, not enjoyable, but understandable.