The Numbers Game: The man who gets paid $80k to do nothing

Published on 15 May 2025
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Shoji Morimoto, known as the "rental do-nothing guy," is getting paid $80,000 to do absolutely nothing.

Once fired for lacking initiative, he turned doing "nothing" into a lucrative career. 

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