Sure, but the point made by the person I replied to was that you shouldn't care about your job. Also, it's normally quite difficult to do a job which requires collaboration when other people don't care about it. Likewise, it becomes difficult to not get burned out if you care about a job and your employer doesn't recognize and reward this.

I think overall my objection is to blanket advice I've heard during my life about how much care I should put into my work. I have never been able to be effective (and as a result have had issues with) doing meaningless work which I didn't care about. I have also had issues with continuing to care about work which people I work with didn't care about.

It's clear that a carefree approach works for some people but in this case it seems like better advice for OP would be to explain how to find jobs where people do care rather than trying to tell him (and other people in that situation) to just deal with it.