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The Jobs of the Future

If [someone] asks you in which country [people] work a lot, it is likely
that the first answer will be Israel and the second Japan. But in Japanese
society in particular, there is at least one person who manages to make a
good living from doing the exact opposite. The business of Shuji

Morimoto, [age] thirty-eight, is called hiring a person who does nothing,
just like that. Morimoto tells us that he gets paid by customers to join them
in various activities - from routine things like a meal in a restaurant or

sitting in a cafe, through birthday celebrations to confessing to murder.
For many of his clients Morimoto is the only one who listens to them. It
may be related to depression, stress at work, the competitive and

demanding nature of Japanese society, the Corona, maybe all together.
What is clear is that Japan is dealing with many phenomena associated
with loneliness. Some argue that Japanese society is a mirror to the future

of the entire Western world. A world where direct communication
between human beings will be reduced to a reality in which many will be
left alone. Morimoto's startup may seem strange but show us someone
who would agree to gamble that such professions will not reach us in the

coming years as well.

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