HN is fascinating. What other website on the internet can one visit where one tells an obvious joke with an obvious point where the characters themselves explain the joke and yet we can be certain someone will point out “no no, actually eating a random pile of shit you see on the floor is worth it” and believe it?

Has it occurred to you, especially since one of the economists in the joke admits they feel they ate shit for nothing, that they actually do not feel the exercise was worth it? Have you never spent money on something, thinking it would be worth it, then afterwards realised it was a waste of money? Have you also never taken a job and then realised “I didn’t charge enough for the trouble”?