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PaperclipPerfector  1yr ago (text post)   3824 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for June 7, 2024

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You are a Japanese salaryman. You work at a construction company. Your boss wishes to fire you but labor laws prevent him, so he gives you the task of repositioning a spherical object to the top of the construction site (it sits on an inclined hill). After you have spent most of your day delivering the spherical object to the top of the incline, your boss tells you that it wasn’t the right object, and promptly rolls it down to the base of the hill. This continues day after day. How do you cope for maximum happiness, implying you must keep your job?

Welp, first I'd try quiet quitting. If labor laws prevent my boss from firing me for shoddy drywalling, they'll protect me for horribly inefficient boulder rolling too. Unless bossman wants to pay a supervisor to micromanage me all day, there are a million ways to goof off.

But assuming I have to play this thought experiment straight: rigorous mindfulness exercises aimed at reconditioning my perception of time and tediousness. A buddhist would say we should all be doing that. But in a situation so devoid of earthly pleasures it's really the only option.

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