The idea of receiving a paycheck reflecting the exact workload and tasks tackled, in real-time, has been proposed as a solution for making our society fairer. This could bring more transparency to wage distribution, and ideally motivate people to be more productive and innovative.
The speaker had to take a job survey quiz in middle school which gave him options like gravetender, clerk, archaeologist, and more, but none of the options appealed to him or his friend.