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On a second read that sentence became even funnier.
My humor-detector is going wild, but I can't figure out the joke(s). I really hope I just need more coffee.
*having someone by your side makes a task easier.
*they get a relative boost because I'm so terrible.
Anyone see additional meanings?
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I've been renting hundreds of people who do nothing for years. From Capgemini. Nothing Japanese about it!
A friendly reminder that Japan's rent-a-family industry was completely fake: https://newrepublic.com/article/160595/new-yorker-japan-rent... Everyone loves stories about how weird Japan is (especially the Japanese), so these stories should be taken with a grain of salt.
Humans, more than any other animals live in an imagined reality. Once food & shelter are taken care of, one’s dependence on nature (physical reality) has been disintermediated. This, our direct experience is primarily imagined abstract reality (friends/family, employment, society, the act of purchasing/consuming, etc).
Especially if one gets socially isolated in this world, it’s very easy to decouple one’s notion of reality from others in subtle ways. To be seen, have one’s perspective acknowledged and to be sincerely “touched” by another person (in a deeper metaphorical sense) is therefore one of the strongest human needs.
On the path to so thoroughly servicing humankind’s physical needs, we’ve created a quandary that’s increasingly endemic with waves of economic development.
A friendly reminder that Japan's rent-a-family industry was completely fake: https://newrepublic.com/article/160595/new-yorker-japan-rent... Everyone loves stories about how weird Japan is (especially the Japanese), so these stories should be taken with a grain of salt.
If anyone finds it, please share.
Ultimately, perhaps some of these people are really looking for a therapist.
I saw a lecture on psychology 101-- I think it was the free online one from Stanford-- where the professor said the main benefit of talk therapy is just having someone who cares about your problems for 45 minutes. So he what he is doing is therapy.
We don't have deep conversations about theory of function, but the peripheral mentions that creep into our conversations seem to point in this same direction.
Ultimately, perhaps some of these people are really looking for a therapist.
I 've seen people react with a "oh so wacky japan" attitude when something like this pops up. But I agree with you, this is nothing more than a form of therapy. > Another reflected, "I had been slack about visiting the hospital, but I went because he came with me." I have seen multiple people be much more eager and diligent in taking a pet to the vet, than taking care of theirselves (due to fear, shame, and an if you…