No? Let’s try then, from an aesthetic sense (even though it’s kind of bizarre to try seeing as the division of labor gets bundled in with a bunch of things political and economic (I have in mind the enclosure acts but nevermind)):
In the days of old, before machines ruled men, your neighbor would make you a shoe. You would come in for a fitting, and he would take his father’s measuring tape and wrap it around your foot with his own two hands. He’d take his father’s leather, nails, hammer, and soul and begin to craft it on the spot. He’d tell you “come back in a week!” and would labor personally over your shoe. He would take satisfaction and care, knowing that this was his craft and that no one could make a shoe quite like his. Each one was handmade. When you returned to him and finalized the exchange, you could smile knowing it was your neighbor and not an impoverished chinaman in a soulless automated factory, stamping a soul onto a shoetop with a steamfitter, shoe after shoe, all day everyday. Total repetition and zero dignity. Of course it’s more productive, but what of the joy of creation? What of putting care and dedication into your craft and receiving the satisfaction of engaging and fulfilling labor? Replaced by the cold machine and man’s implacable appetite for consumption.
That’s not a “hatred” for the division of labor: that’s just a look at typical psychologisms / lefty themes, institutional positive feedback, and narrow paradigm controlling tricks like alienation and “hyper specialization” lefties like to use . There is stil some vision of the division of labor in their heads (you still have a cobbler you have to go to, enjoy the “local charm” and “diversity” of all the small business and crafts, etc). I’ll just leave it at that, though it is always very tempting to really take apart these clearly dubious, and probably self serving, statements (these are the type of comments that really drive people to take up econ I think).
The hunch is the hatred actually comes with the conequences of the division of labor - that is of something along the lines of “status” (hence the hierarchical haterade): If these so called “Wage slaves” (so named by intellectuals), with the same “cog like” job, were treated like rock stars, or had the same “social status / prestige” as a stock broker - the lefties would probably leave the proleteriat alone (though they kind of have already) and/or hate them as much as they do typical busnissmen (though they kind of do already) and find some other group of people to rabble rouse and caste their “sympathy towards” (which they kind of already have).
Also, because I can’t help myself I don’t think I need to tell you or anyone on this site: One can make a pretty strong case that the more one wishes to control such activities and create these “paradises” and perfect equlibriating state that exist in their own mind in such a socialist, bureaucratic, technocratic (pick one) manner the better the analogy one could make for people being real “cogs in a machine”.
AN absolute hatred for something like the division of labor would be a hatred of life itself: everything would have to be destroyed with no concern for any forseeable future, nor any concern to actual create anything: this would include all of ones desires, loves, hates, relationships, etc. One could perhaps only value a “Nirvana” or vegetable man type amorphus blob existence, and perhaps have a revolutionary Bakunin outlok on things. THis too is a tendency of the left - and perhaps part of the “nihilistic pantheism” that seems inherent in some/ many peoples thinking.
I wouldn’t ascribe to a specific set of traits. The point is that having advantages makes you want to use them to get ahead. Not having them makes you want to sabotage those that do.
That is a problem regardless of the mathematical optimization we are aware of. I have no motivation to work a 9-5 job. That’s why I ultimately turned to screenwriting, programming and software design. I tried to force myself to like the idea of going to college and sitting in a cubicle as an accountant or some such. Working on a production line was the most boring thing I ever did. I don’t know how other people can do it. I get bored very easily. What makes it worse is the slavery based compensation model. The idea of locking people in a room, overseeing them and paying them according to how long they have been there is ridiculous. Most businesses are copies of the military. Dogmatic mantras, regimented processes and flat rewards. There are necessary reforms before we can seriously assess the conditions of specialization.