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If you had to do one every other year

Live completely alone on an island

Be overworked in a cramped factory

While on the island you would have no human interaction. You would have everything needed to survive comfortably. Work conditions in the factory are fairly miserable.

Kind of Lonely

Jun 14, 2010

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Live completely alone on an island

Complete solitude means total freedom — no schedules, no bosses, no social obligations of any kind.
Island life offers natural beauty and peace that no factory setting, however improved, could ever provide.
After adapting, island survival builds genuine self-reliance and a deeper connection with the natural world.

Be overworked in a cramped factory

Human connection, even in tough conditions, preserves mental health in ways that total isolation cannot.
Being overworked means shifts end and off-days exist; island isolation never offers a way to step away from itself.

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If you had to do one every other year

Live completely alone on an island

Be overworked in a cramped factory

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