One sort of more prosaic line of thinking that may help is to reflect on what being alive as a human would’ve been like tens of thousands of years ago, in a state of nature. This is in answer to some people’s class-struggle type of resentment at having to work , which they believe a capitalistic exploitative system forces them to — although can be useful in general too
Basically you would literally have to risk your life to hunt for food, or hope that enough could be foraged, or starve! No modern conveniences either of course… the state of nature is basically one of abject poverty
Working derives ultimately from these basic survival needs, but abstracted away and made more efficient via specialization. So instead of having to kill or hunt for or grow your own food, you can do something else in exchange for a medium of currency that you can then use to buy food and shelter etc
So it’s not an added modern burden, it’s a much alleviated ancestral burden!
And you don’t “have” to work. You can just not — and then try to survive without money. And you don’t even “have” to survive or even be alive - no one and nothing forces you to do this
This isn’t advice to end one’s life of course — the idea is for you to see this and realize that you do actually want to be alive!
With that basic acquiescence of wanting to live in mind — recognizing that nothing outside of you is forcing to do this — you see it’s a matter of your own will that you want to live. And then derived therefrom are the factual necessities of being alive — eating and drinking and finding shelter. This is not imposed by anyone or any god or entity, it’s simply a fact of how things are in the same way that it’s a fact that water is wet
And then it’s a matter of sensibly proceeding as to how best acquire said food and shelter. And modern society with its work is such a wondrous way to do this as compared to what humans evolved from! So much easier with no risk to life and limb
IOW if you turn the tower on its head and get to the root of it you will see it’s not a burden to be alive , and therefore nothing deriving from that is a burden either — and thus the resentment can evaporate and you can go around enjoying the process of sustaining yourself, plus all the other bonuses modern living provides — humanity is by far wealthier now than it has ever been!
Cheers Claudiu