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> the idea of going into business as a dinner-party guest, or a book club participant

We're laughing about this concept right now. That makes me fear that we're going to actually see people doing this professionally in the future.

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I know for certain that professional dinner-party guests are a real thing that exists

It definitely existed in the past, for the very specific reason of avoiding 13 guests being seated at the table: https://medium.com/illumination/how-the-phobia-of-the-number...

Honestly it doesn’t strike me as too different from a paid dungeon master. I guess the horror is when it goes from explicitly compensation to some sort of product placement.

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