A student says the greedy pushing rocks in circles dramatizes toil that ends in nothing despite enormous effort and acquisition.
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Futility
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"are for nothing because you're pushing these rocks around in circles and it's just like you're greedy you get a lot of these earthly..."
"you put so much work exactly yeah yeah that's very beautiful thank you yes"
"...would look at that and feel even a greater sense of futility. Like, these are the only things that, I mean, getting from A..."
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