Why This Japanese Man Gets Paid to ‘Do Nothing’: The Economics of Human Value

Shoji Morimoto, Japan’s “Rental Person Who Does Nothing,” gets paid to do nothing. We explore how he makes $80,000 a year by providing human presence as a service, and dissect it as an anthropological experiment that provides an economic proof of the intrinsic value of human existence. We’ll break down the psychology, his connection to Taoist philosophy (Wu Wei), Japan’s intense work culture, and what his story reveals about intrinsic human value in the age of AI.

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00:00 Intro
00:27 Who is Shoji Morimoto
02:55 Why People Hire Him
07:47 People Rental Market
09:36 Intrinsic Value of Human Existence
14:10 Connection to Japan’s Work Culture
15:50 Connection to AI
16:54 The Courage to Be Normal
19:18 Clarification/Caveat
20:31 Taoist ‘Wu Wei’
24:51 The Confounding Variable of Fame

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