Many fulfilling, demanding, satisfying completely unalienated jobs involve enormous effort, long boring stretches of repetitive work, and even intrinsically disgusting tasks.Consider three examples:concert violinist, research biologist, and thoracic surgeon.These are all high status jobs, satisfying and surely unalienated if any jobs are.Well, to become a concert violinist, you must spend endless hours every single day playing boring scales and arpeggios and double stops, over and over and over, until you get them right.And even then, you must continue practicing to maintain your skill.That, as every concert violinist understands, is the price you pay to be able to craft a breathtakingly beautiful interpretation of the Beethoven violin concerto.If anything meets Marx’s ideal of unalienated labor, playing the violin does.[I do not wish to romanticize this, however.I will simply remind you that several years ago, in a contract dispute, the first violin section of a German orchestra demanded higher pay than that given to the timpanist or the double bass player on the grounds that the first violins played more notes!No kidding.Trust the Germans to find exploitation where the rest of us would not think to look.]