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The “No” line from “Would other people be willing to work to create X if they weren't forced to?” should just directly lead to “Then capitalism is wasting its resources on X.”
There are a lot of shitty jobs that very few people would be willing to do if it weren't for the paycheck. I don't know anyone that enjoys breaking up fatbergs in sewers, or changing bed pans in nursing homes, or cleaning out abscessed wounds so foul that you'd instantly vomit if you didn't have half a bottle of peppermint oil saturating your mask.
I have yet to meet a roofer that enjoys roofing during the summer. Or landscapers that enjoy clearing out poison ivy or poison oak. You think the people that clean up road kill are doing it just for the love of the game?
I'm sure there are people that exist that do enjoy these jobs, but the demand for them is much higher than the number of people who would be willing to do it without compensation. Yet all these jobs are important. You aren't going to convince me that maintaining a sewage system is a waste of resources. Or that we should allow wounds to fester if they're too icky. Or that we shouldn't care about removing rotting animal corpses.
There’s two ways I can think of to resolve the problem you’ve proposed off the top of my head:
How many solutions can you think of?
I don't know, perhaps we could come up with some sort of system that rewards people with a form of credit they can use to exchange for goods and services they want? Trading some portion of time spent doing undesirable tasks for the means and ability to see, do, and experience things that bring them joy and might otherwise be impossible.