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Wait, you imagine that there must be a guy forced into dangerous situations against their will and that this society is better because it forces that guy to exist?
What happens is that different people have different options. For some people, they have options that are way better than mining. For some other people, the other options might not be as appealing because they might pay less or whatever. That is the market.
If nobody wants to be a miner, the pay/conditions of mining should go up enough so that there is someone that prefers mining over what they're currently doing.
This encourages people to do jobs that are unappealing.
On the other side, if you are a bad fiction writer, you're probably not earning enough money to survive. That's because you're spending resources but you're not calming many people's desires, so you'll probably take up a job that you like less but pays way more, and is probably more healthy for the community.
Nobody is forcing them. But if those jobs were not done, we wouldn't have the society we have today. Mining safety gear will probably not have been invented in an anarchy society. Water treatment plants wouldn't either. All those things we have today is because we used our resources way more efficiently than "go do whatever you want, the guy over there that loves farming and the guy over there that loves cooking will keep you fed".