Unalienated labor doesn't exist. It is one of many fairy tales leftists like to tell themselves, like the idea of an objective fair universal price. The tale promises that work wouldn't be laborious and draining if it wasn't for those damn capitalists they would all labor happily in some kind of utopia. It would be comical except people actually believe it. Notice their ears remain firmly plugged to testimonies of life as a worker under communism which would tell them their framework is fatally flawed.

Of course, operating under such ideological blinkers it is no wonder why so many leftist grad students toil for the promised land. Others merely do the same for believed good hours and prestiege with no such delusions.