Deal fatigue

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The point at which the tedium of an activity becomes intolerable, such it dawns on you that ditch that you have been stubbornly insisting you will, and must, die in, is in point of fact a meaningless rut on the side of an ugly hill leading to nowhere in particular, and there is more fun to be had to threaten to die in another ditch, on another hill, on another day.

See also

• eighth law of worker entropy