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A Japanese man turned an insult into a business: he rents himself out to sit silently next to people while they do errands or drink tea. His "Rental People Who Do Nothing" service makes him $80,000 a year by offering nothing but presence.
A Japanese man turned an insult into a business: he rents himself out to sit silently next to people while they do errands or drink tea. His "Rental People Who Do Nothing" service makes him $80,000 a year by offering nothing but presence.
There is a guy in Japan who is making $80,000 a year for doing nothing. What happened is this guy was at work and his boss called him a do-nothing man, and he like was insulting him. Dude, you, you just do nothing. You don't really add anything. You don't provide any value. He thought to himself and he goes, is there value in society for a man who does nothing? And he went online and he posted a tweet saying, I'm starting a new service. It's called Rental People Who Do Nothing. A companion, a friend who will do nothing. You rent him out and he'll go hang out with you and says nothing. It's pretty much a silent companion, completely non-physical, non-sexual, basically an introvert for hire. And so what people do is they have a task they need to go do, like an errand they need to run, or they just feel really lonely and they just want somebody to have some tea with them. And he'll come and he'll sit and he won't really say anything. And if you ask him a question, he'll give you a simple answer. It's really just the presence of another human body. Isn't this fascinating?
