We work meaningful things for the love of it and/or with proper compensation for the not that interesting work that needs to be done.
All of that is possible and not even utopian in a sense of an absolute which can't be reached. And even in the case that a vision is truly impossible to reach the path towards it is useful.
We are simply not equipped mentally, physically, in any way for working like we currently do.
Even when most work should be done in four hour shifts for three days a week per person, plenty of people could be freed to just be creative for higher purposes. Living shouldn't be a paid subscription snd it doesn't need to be. Everyone's living is already possible to provide. Not even a pipedream.
Communes do happen and exist but let's be realistic. Lifting up your life and having the capital to go exit is not possible for even the most.
It can depressing but it also needs to be acknowledged to change the situation.