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Korean culture, for all its flaws, has communal cleaning down pretty well. It's just always the youngest/junior members' responsibility. Depending on size/clos
by sooheon 9y ago
Korean culture, for all its flaws, has communal cleaning down pretty well. It's just always the youngest/junior members' responsibility. Depending on size/closeness/formality of group, the responsibility ends higher or lower up the totem pole. If the most senior member starts picking shit up, someone more junior is expected to get off their ass and finish what they started ASAP.
I think it's drilled into people from the conscription military culture, where:
1. nobody signed up for this shit
2. and yet there's tons of busywork/cleaning to do
3. rather than everyone milling about shifting responsibility, have a clear expectation that the most junior guys will do all the work, and once future generations come in they, too, can relax
There's even a saying, "your ass is heavy", which is a prod to juniors who stay seated as more senior people are doing busywork.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoI like it; it uses a decent Schelling point (youngest does the work), and given that time goes on and humans keep reproducing, it stays fair.