Why do many Indians work only for a salary if they do not have job satisfaction?

It is very easy for us (me, at least) to sit in a cosy room which is supplied electricity and Internet 24x7 with a laptop and type a philosophical treatise on the pursuit of job satisfaction.

For the vast majority of Indians, this is a fantasy.

The majority works for a salary, because they desperately need one. They have old parents, a spouse, and kids to provide for. They have a house to run, loans and bills and fees to pay, and, if nothing else, stomachs to fill. Most of time, it is just one or two people providing for a bunch. Jobs and decent salaries are hard to come by, and quite often, something is better than nothing.

This is the background which makes people put up with mundane work, exploitation, mistreatment, or even abuse at the workplace - because at the end of every month, they will receive a salary, which would make other aspects of their lives relatively easier to deal with. It is the price they pay for affording everything else.

The average employer does not give a shit about job satisfaction because he doesn't need to. The average employee doesn't give a shit because he cannot afford to. When fundamentals of survival are on the line, concepts like job satisfaction are a laughable obscurity.