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The number of retirees who get BS jobs just to kill time suggests people like having some productive way of occupying their time. It's just if we had near unlimited choice in what that productive time killer was I don't think many people would op for "bring food to whiny assholes".
But the power dynamic would be different, wouldn't it. The assholes are only whiny because they have you over a barrel. What if the only leverage anyone had was whether bodily fluids make it into the dishes or not