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Not really. While, yes, the job usually is necessary, telling someone to get a better job does not imply that their current one is necessary.
No person working a full time job should be poor. And a 20hr per week job should be able to comfortably split the median rent of a 2 bedroom apartment with another working adult and offer at least a basic lifestyle.
I don't give a fuck about judging if a job is necessary or not. If a buisness needs a job filled then they have to pay enough for people to live
If it is necessary, why are people working that job poor?
The ruling class intentionally creates extra work to keep people off of the streets. David graeber wrote a good book about it.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullshit-jobs
I think that's the right source material to answer the comment's question, but the wrong answer.
The central idea of that book is that the most necessary labor is devalued under hierarchy in order to inflate the importance of unnecessary roles. Not that unnecessary labor is created to keep people occupied. It is, but the unnecessary labor inventoried in that book by Graeber are mostly decently-paid white collar jobs, used to illustrate the fact that even do-nothing cushy roles are paid better than our most essential workers.
Every shitty job is necessary to somebody to some degree or no one would pay for it.
It comes down to this. If you want something to be done by someone, but you also dont think people that do that thing that you want should be paid enough to live a decent life, then you are evil. Period.