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Re:Masahiro Kikuno, Japanese Independent Watchmaker by derefr on Thursday June 22, 2017 @04:14AM (#14610833)
It's a terminal preference that's alien to me, certainly. No more "good" or "bad" than the terminal preference a salmon has to swim upstream, fertilize eggs and die; it is what it is.

Now, if the question is whether this really is his terminal preference, or whether he misunderstands his own deepest desires and might, under different conditions, have suffered a "mid-life crisis" realizing he hasn't satisfied his true goals after all... I can't really say. You'd have to ask him. Probably after getting him very drunk, because "has your life been a mistake" is not the type of thing you make small-talk about.

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Re:Masahiro Kikuno, Japanese Independent Watchmaker by jkaunisv1 on Thursday June 22, 2017 @10:29AM (#14612460)
I think the fact that he was on his own on the street at age 9 or thereabouts and had to find work to survive would probably play a big part. Even if he hated it to start, by the time he had the freedom of making the choice to do something else he was probably truly into it.
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