There’s a whole lot of behavioral science to this, but you’re definitely on to something. There are lots of experiments on what it takes to make a rat regard you with disgust as say “I pushed the lever for fucking this?”
There was an art installation thing where you could earn minimum wage by turning a crank continuously that would drop a penny every 5 seconds ish of being consistently turned
There’s a whole lot of behavioral science to this, but you’re definitely on to something. There are lots of experiments on what it takes to make a rat regard you with disgust as say “I pushed the lever for fucking this?”
There was an art installation thing where you could earn minimum wage by turning a crank continuously that would drop a penny every 5 seconds ish of being consistently turned
Rat Lever Pushers’ Union!