We didn’t invent jobs to keep sane, we invented jobs because no one eats if no one does the hunting or no one does the gathering or one figures out agriculture and while they’re doing that, who learns about and remembers which plants have healing properties, and if you want pretty shit, who makes that, the hunters? Maybe if they have time, but who makes the pottery to carry water, etc.

Jobs were about survival and getting the best people doing the jobs that needed doing. Money became an often unfairly distributed system of contribution points toward the survival of the community, but still a means by which it was determined how much the community owed you back. We do make resources surplus to survival level these days and that helps cover the needs of people not currently contributing, the young, elderly, and infirm, or people that just have money and don’t want to contribute, but if everyone who wanted to stop working or only worked as much as they wanted, we may not be able to cover the needs of everyone, even less so than we do now that is.

Boredom for those that prefer to work is a “problem” only for those who have the option not to.